10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. ” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

According to Tim Low (in “Where Song began”), “so easy were they to breed that by 1859 they cost less to buy in London than in Sydney.” ” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits?

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

However choosing what food to feed your pet is a major decision especially as there are different types of food specifically designed for different breeds and lifestyles. Pro Plan has been serving pets and their owners for more than eighty years, and is continually advancing the science behind pet care and nutrition.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. For example, if a highly competitive common bird species expands its range into a region where local, more rare species exist, they could get pushed out. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87). What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

These run the range from birds like Barnacle Goose and Little Egret, which are rare but do show up in North America every few years (actually, lately it’s been every year) to birds whose sightings in North America are so few that they’re legendary–Western Reef-Heron and Corn Crake are two examples. This is not unusual.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Many native bird species have been displaced or lost their breeding grounds, leading to a significant decline in their numbers. Green Spaces?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. The less telomere, the more aging, independently of time.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. The second thing they did was to interfere with the genetic pathways in some chickens, which produced a chicken with beaky bits that were more like snouty bits found in, for example, a Alligator.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It Thankfully, English names are listed by whole name; for example, Stygian Owl is listed as “Stygian Owl”, under S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers Science, 330 (6006), 954-957 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604 Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., Vinther, J.,

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They breed in colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent (the number ranges from 60 to 70, and as Kooyman points out, the colonies can drastically change in size from year to year) on the ice (and one of the things I learned from this book is how many different kinds of ice there is in the Antarctic) in the darkest months of winter.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In short, I truly believe that there still are, maybe not plenty but a good number of species that to this day go unnoticed to the scientific eye, but are surely known to the indigenous peoples (the best example is the newly discovered giant rat from the Solomon Islands). The Cocha Antshrike was one of these species not long ago.

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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. Third, this really is an example of real life birding; it reads almost like a thriller as Lovitch and O’Brien realize they miscalculated and are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Some have proposed that the Larus gulls were an example of a ring species proposed by the late great Ernst Mayr, but that conclusion has been disputed (convincingly, I would say). Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

They breed in the tunnel area, giving those birdwatchers anxiously waiting for the Chinese Monal to show up something to do in the meantime – like watching the shift change. Sounds a bit like some weird Nazi eugenics experiment to me, but I guess it is just science.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Red and yellow are the colors symbolizing several different things – for example, McDonald’s, the People’s Republic of China, Mastercard, and Kodac. Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. ” Full iteration!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

For example , in one study, it was found that more than 80 percent of the fledgling Australian Magpies born in a territory one year were sired by males from outside its borders. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Durban museum based ornithologist Philip Clancey took numerous expeditions into Zululand and Mozambique, discovering several new subspecies as well as a new species to science, Lemon-breasted Canary in 1961. James Wakelin is prime example of modern ornithologist and conservator. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Both bushtit species occasionally are supported by helpers when breeding ( source ). As I frequently mention, science is quite wonderful. For example, this paper points out that migrating Bramblings prefer to feed in a habitat in which they are less likely to get killed.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. A good example is the function of beauty in male birds. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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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. While I would not want to encourage anyone to put birds in cages, it is interesting to read about the experience of somebody breeding Black-headed Sibias in captivity.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. The investment placed in each clutch bur seabirds is so great that only one breeding attempt can be seen to completion each year. They are cavity nesters, breeding in natural cavities or holes dug into the soil.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

Plumage color, for example, is subject to a great deal of variation, as anyone whose seen and photographed a flycatcher in direct sunlight and then under a cloud can attest–gray-green? The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. green-gray? .”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The chapter on Martha, for example, just shows a close-up of her stuff body–not the whole body, the torso and tail–against an almost-black background. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. Can I say that this is a beautiful book?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Males of this species are more brightly colored in their non-breeding winter plumage. However they are not at all related, hummingbirds are allied to swifts but sunbirds (and spiderhunters) to white-eyes, flowerpeckers and other passerines; a perfect example of convergent evolution.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I selected this paper because it is unusually accessible (for example, it does not have formal modeling, genetic analysis, or daunting equations) and tells a fascinating story about shipping tiny birds hundreds of miles between two isolated islands in the remote Pacific Ocean. It is helpful to have a sample paper. It is all business.

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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. Passenger Pigeons, for example.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I would encourage the KDFW to take Tennessee’s example as an indication that offering sandhill cranes for hunting will create far more public relations trouble than it’s worth. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. . ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For example, while we’re used to ‘seasonality,’ observing damselflies and dragonflies in warmer months, rainfall is “the most significant variable” in the tropics (p. The Black-winged Dragonlet, one of the most abundant dragonflies in Costa Rica, is a good example. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

But in the vast in between where most birds exist there are all sorts of contradictory examples. Little tiny birds with their little tiny wings and high daily energetic demands fly zillions of miles, while larger birds migrate shorter distances, for example. And then there is the loon. 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J., MOURITSEN, H.,

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