10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963. And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns.
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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.
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.
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. Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Only in the late 1980’s was it “rediscovered” so to say, with the male being found at Imuya Cocha and described to science for the first time. Finally the species was complete.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
One bird, the authors discovered, flew 5,000 miles nonstop from southern Brazil to North Carolina. The three co-authors of Life Along the Delaware Bay are scientists who know how to write about science without jargon or pretense.
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