10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases).

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 211

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

Those readers with slightly morbid interests might want to seek out a paper in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences describing the case of heavy mixed infection of Golden Pheasants by Heterakis isolonche and H. gallinarum ( source ). ” Sounds more sophisticated, right?

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” .’ What was left to write about? ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day.

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Costa Rica 2018 Colombia Collecting 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How much do birders value a birding experience? But there are few transactions that can be analyzed to determine how much value birding experiences, themselves, provide to a birder. However, if you could auction off each quart to the highest bidder, you’d have an idea about the collective value of those quarts.

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Oregon Washington Birds Chad 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. The following sections on identification, photography, and collection are brief but to the point. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

This is more than a collection of species accounts. ” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e.,

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Los Angeles North America America Species 200

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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Birds North America Breeding America 114

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Videos, like the illustrations and diagrams included in the book, help make literature about science, especially theoretical science, more accessible to us non-scientists. Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same. The result is a different kind of book.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

Cocker put out a call for people’s personal experiences with birds and people responded, over 600 people, most of who are credited in the Acknowledgements section. Birds are all over, on our advertisements, on the opening to the Colbert show, on the wall of the Frick Museum, in our yards, on our dinner plates, in our collective history.”

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 204

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 191

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

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Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 224

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Third, Hawks in Flight was primarily illustrated by David Sibley’s excellent black-and-white drawings, supplemented with a collection of black-and-white photographs in the back of the book. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 214

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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The research, although widely accepted, was greeted with some skepticism early on (Sutton 1966), and eventually followup attempts to replicate his research and experiments near Clyde River Nunavut by Richard Schnell found that the data could not have been have been collected as Smith’s publications had indicated.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Photographs illustrate data collection: cannon nets capturing the birds, scientists and volunteers running to cover them and then place them in burlap cages, the weighing and banding and lately, for the Red Knots, fitting them with geolocators that, if recaptured, give a picture of the long-distance migratory movements of the bird.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. Several powerline marking experiments are in place, and hopefully a workable solution will be found for the main problem affecting this species.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 182