10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For the nature lovers and birders who participate in breeding bird surveys, the atlas represents hours, often hundreds of hours, of volunteer time spent within a community of citizen scientists doing what they love, observing birds. So, what exactly does a breeding bird atlas contain?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2016
For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. There is a nice description of the process until the release of the bird into the wild here, with photos. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Most likely, all individuals of a given species have very similar genes guiding very similar developmental processes, but produce different results because the plasticity itself is selected for. But, if you capture wild birds (to make them pets) then breed them through one generation and they get out, they are bad at avoiding predators.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2014
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Desperate to get out into the field, but not wanting to get lost and frustrated in the process, I dropped a small fortune (well, 18.90 White Wagtail in Helsinki.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Yes, Germans were a particularly supersticious breed in the days of old, and would not dare to use the word devil even when cursing. This goes so far as to hunters even using a very unique hunter’s jargon for the various activities related to hunting, or the names of the different parts of animals they hunt.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Ayres discovered Orange Ground Thrush , Ayres’ Cisticola and Ashy Flycatcher in the process. It was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal province by Dr Andrew Smith.
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