10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Still, I found it a little disjointing that a book has been written about our relationship with birds. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published. And, each essay tells a story.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. Each book involves a new crime (or several) to solve, but otherwise the characters live in a continuing story. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.

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Critter News

MARCH 21, 2012

But I want to be able to argue about it intelligently, citing science, not just morals. Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human. Drugs are not always predictable from human to human even.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change."

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. The book hastens to assure us that “we may safely assume that it referred only to bright plumage” While larger, the White-eared Honeyeater seems to follow a somewhat similar color scheme. ” ( source ).

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

For those who can't handle the visuals, now it's available as an audio book. Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

What if, in turn, the discovery that the species was not truly extinct held the key to saving humanity from another, even more devestating flu outbreak? It takes a skilled hand to make the characters and threads equally compelling, and if they are not, the book feels unbalanced. This, I am sorry to say, broke the book for me.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing.

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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. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” More recently, Kelly J.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Side note: Indeed, if you follow the titles of newly published books, you will see that there is a constant flow of “Reverse harem” publications. ” I can see how this line of thinking leads to all kinds of sci-fi types of thought (“would I mate with an alien if I was the last human on earth”, etc.),

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

I deal with this sort of illness by lying in a hot bath drinking wine and revisiting beloved books of my youth, and this time out I chose Unexplained! , Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2011

I was pulled into the book, and really had a hard time putting it down. From a billionaire with an interest in science and a desire to clone his lover’s dog Missy, to the police dog from Nova Scotia who found the last survivor victim of the attacks on 9/11, the book is full of characters both human and animal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. It is a skillfully, beautifully written book about finding joy and spirituality in nature and birds. It’s a book we all should read.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.), 6) Taxonomy.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2010

The purpose of her trip was to study the behavior of the resident chimpanzees in order to better understand humans. What she learned then added to our understanding of what means to be human. It was through her research that she learned how chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat and engage in war-like activity.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

It comprised eight short talks on subjects ranging from investigations into the genetics of magnetic receptors for navigation, to the use of eBird and other “citizen science” crowdsourcing efforts in studying migrant phenology. ” Fascinating stuff, with real conservation implications. (Oh, I study Juncos now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

So, I belong to this book group of 5 to 7 women. I do enjoy reading books and discussing them, but I have a quandary that I'm going to post about. She is the "science" one and likes to call herself an "independent" on the political landscape. She recommended a book for me to read called Angelica by Arthur Phillips.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Buy a couple of books and get into the field! Wintering birds and migrants may certainly appreciate it, even if there is too much human disturbance for nesting birds. Patch birding.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2010

If there has been progress in ethics recently it has been through the realization of some ethicists that animal happiness and suffering has to be considered equally with that of human beings. I should draw attention here to the remarkable book Animal Liberation by Professor Peter Singer of Monash University.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) This was the first book on the birds of KwaZulu-Natal. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa. Image by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. You could not have two books more different from each other in slant, outlook, and prognosis than Inheritors of the Earth ( the Thomas book) and The Aliens Among Us (Anthony). Prum, Doubleday).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. Nothing keeps a human reader more engaged than a genuine character, and the birds here are exactly that. Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. It thereby illustrates how pure science advances informed conservation actions to ensure the (short-term) stability of the target population, and how conservation-motivated analyses fed back to advance fundamental understanding of population processes.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. Of course, if science is not for you, you can also look for the Spiritual Meaning of Willie Wagtail (“Unlock the amazing secrets of this spiritual symbol”) here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin!

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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. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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