10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Upon arrival we were given strict and non-flexible rules: never go even one inch off the ice paths, never allow the tiniest piece of litter to escape, never interact in any way with the wildlife, and cause absolutely no environmental damage. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 237

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

One proposed explanation by the researchers for this phenomenon is that similar-looking birds reduce their risk of predation, as predators find it more difficult to focus on and isolate a single target. Interested in doing research on the Orange-bellied Leafbird ? malayana had been collected. hardwickii and C.

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Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2014

The reason most bird blogs start collecting dust over time and eventually become derelict is not because the blogs are total rubbish (shocking, I know), but because people just can’t commit to posting with any regularity. Research never hurts, right? Do some browsing…visit a lot of other blogs, bird-related and otherwse.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. It was a gigantic, innovative project that collected and catalogued massive amounts of data about birds, habitat, and ecological change.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On a very quiet night during a lull in the drama of the ducks, I was researching the Greyhound racing industry, and seething over its treatment of dogs as well as the support it often gets, through subsidies, to help it survive. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search.

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