10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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Panama Research Investigation Chickens 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2016

Working my way thru college towards a wildlife sciences degree, and ever since, rarely has there not been a bird book close at hand. In fact you can go to last weeks BBotW on this site, as well as my personal bird blog. I sent them a photo, but never did hear back, so I guess they agreed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator. The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community.

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Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences. Species are useful handles (p. 16, below).”

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Birds North America 2012 America 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Argentinian Julián Quillén Vidoz, is both a co-author and an illustrator of Birds of Bolivia , and is apparently one of those multi-talented birders, with research (in Bolivia), guiding, and illustration on his resume.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. Lovitch rightly recommends David La Puma’s Woodcreeper website as “one of the best and most accessible blogs about birding by radar”.

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 229

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Time for conversation, discussion about culture, cuisine, science, or politics, and the sightings of that morning. 12:30PM: Lunch time! A good chat with my clients usually lasts well after lunch has ended. I tell them to meet me at the boat landing at 3PM, and we part ways.

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Otters Parrots Birds Brazil 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! Germany had lost one of its most promising ornithological researchers, and one of its most active birders.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2012

Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases). An e-petition is to be launched and I’ll update this post here with a link as soon as that is in place.

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Industry Research Raised Killing 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker in particular is a species I would like to get much better photos of. Such a cute bird deserves a better representation. The Grey-sided Scimitar Babbler looks like it is constantly a bit confused about the status of this world.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With regard to the Grey-backed Thrush , “further research should focus on identification of nest predators, implications of nest exposure and begging calls on nesting success, and breeding habitat requirements at different spatial and temporal scales of Grey-backed Thrush in fragmented landscapes of northeast China.”

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Birds China Eggs Owls 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. ” Nicely phrased, too – who would want to argue with an “evolutionary adaptive strategy”?

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2023

The latter paper makes me glad not to be involved in ornithological research, as it casually mentions that “Munias proved difficult to maintain in captivity, would not eat, and generally died within a day or two.” Blame the incompetent photographer for not capturing a male.

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Zebras Thailand Philippines Birds 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2011

By joining the staff and walking through these hallowed cyberhalls, I will have, in effect, elevated 10,000 Birds to the status of the indisputable Greatest Birding Blog In The World…and who wouldn’t want to write for that? But I could not have done it without my brother Seagull Steve, who leads the world in birder research.

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Inhumane United States Science Birds 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. That’s because the two are related. 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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Research Humane Compassion New York 188

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. I’ve organized them by date (month/day) of the approximate reporting or blogging time of the item of interest, which does not necessarily reflect the actual date of occurrence. Birds Bird evolution research'

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Science 2013 Elephants Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name? I overlooked the date.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

Somehow, I feel this post about the few pheasants I have seen in China has gotten off to a wrong start – not quite the kind of motivation to blog readers to continue reading this post. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. Wait, does that remind me of anyone? Never mind.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Finding scientific research related to the species online is difficult as the word Merlin is used for so many other things as well – a bird ID app, a wizard ( e.g., “A typical depiction of Merlin tends to be of an old, cloaked wizard with a long white beard.”), of the total, a sobering thought). ”), etc.

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Birds China Humane Battery 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

(Steve Howell’s account of how Rare Birds of North America was born, with cautions for future authors about timing and printers, can be found on the Traveling Trinovid Blog.). He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. What does it mean in the larger sense?

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North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2018

No peace for the blessed (Are you all as impressed as I am that Tom is in Africa and still finding time to review photos, share checklists and write blog posts?). Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2011

But seriously, Science has a more interesting set of answers, and some recently published research on European Robins helps to examine this question in some detail. How the quality is demonstrated is the subject of one or more future blog posts, I’m sure. Why is the Robin’s breast red? 2011.01187.x x Estes, Richard.

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Research Science Birds Deer 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Let us know in the comments what your Best Bird of the Year for 2015 was as well and, if you have a link to a blog post, photos, or whatever else you want to share make sure to include it. At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 182

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. Articles have been added since the 2004 volume for some, but not all species (let’s face it, not all gull species are of interest to researchers). The citations consist of author’s last name and year of publication.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

After returning once more from Nanhui and almost admiring the extent of ongoing destruction there, what better song to start this blog post than with excerpts from the song “Give up” by The Burning Hell? But it is all for science, I hear them say. Normally sandpipers place their nests on the ground. One puzzle solved.

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