10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

A sample of this process is here.) 21.23 , which governs scientific collecting permits and under which the FWS issued the permit. The removal program was designed to determine whether Barred Owls were a threat to Spotted Owls, the magnitude of any such threat, and the effectiveness of removal. Most relevant to this case is 50 C.F.R.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some lingered to gaze at samples from the Field’s collection of bird specimens, such as perfectly preserved thrushes, warblers, and even a Rose-breasted Grosbeak under glass. They seem to be a friendly lot, with inquisitive minds and cheerful natures, and are always on the go. Oh, if I didn’t have a day job!).

San Diego 173

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 173

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2010

I got a sample of the Heart U Back friendship bracelet , and it is my new favorite thing to wear. From the site: The Heart U Back Collection of jewelry has been uniquely designed and created to express the heart-warming bond between pet and the pet owner. Their mission is one that we can get behind too!

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RSPCA ASPCA Collecting Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He collected 136 individuals found laying around after the storm, and carefully measured them. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2013

Hidden away in that boatyard is an amazingly good spot to buy roti, which rivaled doubles as my favorite food that I sampled while in Trinidad and Tobago. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of wildlife check out 10,000 Clicks , our huge (and growing) collection of galleries! …. What, exactly, is roti?

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Trinidad Guyana Chickens Reptiles 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers. Among the gentry there seems not to have been much of a line between being a bird watcher and a bird hunter, and the home naturalist could certainly develop a nice private collection. Or get your own. Not birds, though.

Birds 168

Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” 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.’ ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. I usually enjoy collections of articles and essays, they allow me to sample different writers and different ideas. I wish I could say the same about the other pieces of writing here.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 106

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The 2008 “Early Bird” framework proposed by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues is being ratified and refined by successive studies using new techniques and different sets of samples. Kagu wasn’t sampled in the study.) McCormack et al., Sunbittern ( Eurypyga helias ) cc-by Tambako the Jaguar Until now? McCormack et al.

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Parrots Falcons South America 2008 136

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JULY 26, 2014

But when you meet one in the field or as you read our exceptional collection of essays discussing different aspects of invasive species all over the world, have some sympathy and some taste. This is probably too much to think about every time you encounter what we consider an invasive species.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. According to Henderson, the robins were discerning customers, too, sampling each berry one nibble at a time, and in the end, choosing only the most delicious ones to devour completely: They were as painstaking at times as a connoisseur examining a work of art.

Farming 150

Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation by Mike Unwin is a collection of data about birds and their environments presented through words, graphics, and photographs. Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section. Or browse or sample if that be your reading style.

Albatross 193

Albatross Birds Campaign Protection 193

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. Then, after a well deserved cup of tea we boxed up all the guys that were able to be released and sent them on their way.

New Zealand 185

New Zealand Vet Collecting Geese 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

I drove to their car to find Dimitris Michalakis of the Management Body of the Eco-development Area of Karla-Mavrovouni-Kefalovrisi-Velestino, who explained that Yannis was doing that on purpose, to see how quickly they reacted to disturbance, what their condition was and to collect samples of dead or dying birds and fishes.

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Greece Killing Pelicans Eagles 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

A pair of hoopoe (Wiedenhoppe) porcelain figurines produced in the early eighteenth century by the Meissen Manufactury from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It all seemed too fantastical to be true. Of course, hoopoes do exist, though I’ve yet to see a real one myself.

2017 116

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 116

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. And the guano from a million Wrinkle-lipped Bats.

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. 84-85, though it’s hard to tell because there is no pagination in this section, simply plate numbers): And, here is a sample of the first two pages of the three-page Species Account for Bat Falcon (pp.

Mexico 157

Mexico America North America Falcons 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Data collection for the Second Breeding Bird Atlas Project of Pennsylvania took place from 2004 through 2009, roughly twenty years after the first official atlas project, 1983 through 1989. 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 222

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds. The book’s organization of rare and vagrant birds is inconsistent and confusing. The maps are problematic.

Ireland 141

Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 141

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2006

In 2003, I was in the sanctuary described in your article and collected samples from those dead animals. Historically, these diseases have been studied only when they affect human populations or domestic animals.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Gorillas Congo 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

New York City 181

New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

Many researchers also take advantage of the fact that a huge proportion of the data on eBird is collected just as a scientist would collect it, keeping track of the time spend or distance covered for each checklist. These standardizations make it much easier to compare across different checklists.

Chicago 262

Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 262

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2020

The illustrations usually include several photos and field guide paintings (from HBW) of a sample member of each genus. The text deals with Related Families, Similar Birds, Description, Habitat, Food, Breeding, Conservation and Relationships. I take my hat off. Winkler, Shawn M. Billerman, and Irby J.

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Family Birds South America Breeding 289

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

The tendency to dramatize, to insert dialog and create scenes for which there are no factual basis occurs again and again throughout the book, particularly with Etta Lemon.

Industry 118

Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. For some inexplicable reason, the notation of the French children’s song “Alouette” above the skylark is in mirror image in this copy of the label, though it appears correctly on the bottle I sampled.

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2017 France Chicago Collecting 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over.

Owls 203

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). Note that there are a lot of mammals (about 40) that are bigger than any bird in this sample.

Mammals 173

Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2011

Our collective goal was to examine every area in which excrement impacts avifauna and their observation. Birding Cyprus’ Sewage Pools Why would you be better off visiting Cyprus’ sewage pools than sampling its local cuisine ? What’s more important… toilet paper or a camera?

Cyprus 167

Cyprus United States Suffering Collecting 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! The Long-tailed Pipit was the more obvious one, this species turning up every winter in this arid region of South Africa, before mysteriously disappearing.

South Africa 216

South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This study collected data on mean wing length and tail feather length as well as measurements of the head. So, two body size measurements and one brain size measurement were taken on a sample of birds. A separate study conducted within this study showed that the head measurements accurately predicted the brain size in a given bird.

Mammals 226

Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 226

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). And, there are many. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Here’s a sample of how that section reads: “Ducks have 14-18 feathers (rectrices). The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 115