10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It also summarizes the vagrancy status of every bird family in the whole wide world, which makes it fun to read as well as superbly educational. The Family Accounts are the fun part of the book. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Time for conversation, discussion about culture, cuisine, science, or politics, and the sightings of that morning. Birding Amazon Brazil cristalino rainforest' 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

JULY 3, 2018

Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. There are other questions though, and Johnson patiently teases them out.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 107