10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
Let’s say you’re a bird wrapping up your breeding season in the north of Scotland—where do your thoughts turn when winter beckons? The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2016
Irruptions of Snowy Owls in 2011 and again in 2013 found these Arctic birds wintering well south of their usual range , in some cases straying down to Bermuda and even Hawaii. (I But new research, published in The Auk , suggests that this narrative may not provide the whole story.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2017
From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Lanham is also an activist on the topic of getting more diversity into the birding community: you can see a video of his work here. the hits keep coming. Drew Lanham. 24.00, Milkweed Press.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2013
Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. Shearwater split. lherminieri ). Let the hyphen wars begin!)
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
” Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff and Tony Angell finds the crucial balance between those poles, perhaps because they are respectively a researcher and an artist. They draw on the work of such notable researchers as Bernd Heinrich and Irene Pepperberg as well as the observations of everyday birders and their own work.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2017
Dion, “The Wanderer” When it comes to being a Romeo on the run, few birds can match the Pectoral Sandpiper. In some cases the males strayed from their Alaska home base for a bit of far-flung sex tourism in Canada and Russia.). But if you asked the birds, they’d probably just say they do it all for the nookie.
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