10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. The preferred alternative to collecting a bird is to take photos and a blood sample.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. They weren’t hard to find, but I would have appreciated, if publishing them in the book is too costly, a small collection on the publisher’s web site.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2020
Individually, all the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. There are companies that track traffic on websites, and they are interesting, but seem duplicative of other data. Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association.
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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2016
Individually, all of the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. The birding report is clear on its definitions of “birder” but has the same challenge, namely drawing inferences from survey data collected for a different purpose.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
Image by Adam Riley Johan Wahlberg, a Swedish naturalist and collector, arrived in 1839 in the company of Frenchman Adulphe Delegorgue. Delegorgue’s main ornithological contribution was collecting Delegorgue’s Pigeon in the now vanished forests of Durban, but besides this he had little significant input. Image by Adam Riley.
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. So many birding books talk only about birds, it’s fun to read about us for a change.
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