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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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Enjoy Helping Animals? Consider an Education in Zoology

4 The Love Of Animals

Working at zoos as curators where they are responsible for acquiring animals, either through buying them from other zoos or overseeing breeding programs. Working as educators in sanctuaries, aquariums and other such venues. Working as an animal science researcher at colleges or universities. CONCLUSION.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2024

10,000 Birds

He was a strong promoter of technical education and one of the founders of a women’s university. As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. Really not much fun to write about good guys.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I am very happy Osborn decided to tell her stories again; enlightening, amusing, and educational, they also give insight into what it’s like to work as part of the Condor Recovery Project–the extended hours, physical labor, stress, and fun. Osborn is a superlative natural history writer. (pp.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

Critter News

The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

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A Brant With Bling

10,000 Birds

I quickly learned, thanks to the great number of educated and kind people on the Facebook page, that the bird had what looked like a light-level geolocator, a device that measures the amount of light hitting the device each day. When recovered, it can be used to figure out where the goose has been. Win – win- win!