Collecting Humane Investigation Rights 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
Last Monday, I collected Jamaican Nettletree seeds. In this case, the bird that came to investigate was a lovely male Berylline Hummingbird. Look to the right… A bit more to the center… There, just right. Seeds sprout, cuttings root, and apparently moribund plants suddenly produce surprising growth spurts.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Humanity is not very human. You should try it too. Sometimes it works.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2013
They are inquisitive birds that will take an interest in human activity and seem to have no concerns. Apostlebird investigating field-guide. We slowed right down as we knew there would be several of the birds present and being the fearless birds they are we didn’t want to collect them on the front of our car.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2023
Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Months prior, a call for volunteers had gone out to local birders, and I happily signed up for a few shifts. Oh, if I didn’t have a day job!).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.
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