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.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

At the same time the field is somewhat lacking in people unconcerned with habitat or wild animals, but if Linda says that they do more damage to permafrost than oil companies dumping 94 thousand gallons of oil laced water on the environment, who am I to argue? Science doesn’t work that way! Science Schmience.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

—Pet supplement company Rocky & Bella, Inc. Only 80 pet supplement companies internationally are able to use the NASC Quality Seal on products. NASC President Karen Howard said that earning the NASC Quality Seal indicates that the pet supplement company is focused on quality by successfully completing its independent audit.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. And let’s give credit to the design team of The Bright Press, the book packaging company that designed and produced this book: art director James Lawrence and designer Wayne Blades. The Bright Press is a British company.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

There are companies that track traffic on websites, and they are interesting, but seem duplicative of other data. Others : There are many birding festivals , including several large and well-attended ones, but attendance numbers for any individual event do not provide much information about the overall number of birders.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Usually, there are a few Eurasian Spoonbills keeping them company, though they tend to be in the minority here at Nanhui. It seems they take their looming extinction lightly. Oxycontin is not a big issue here at Nanhui, so the reason may be different. No, I will not stop showing photos of Daurian Redstarts. They are just too attractive.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The NC3Rs brings together stakeholders in the 3Rs in academia, industry, government and animal welfare organisations to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, and the translation of research findings into practice that will benefit both animals and science.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. I support their cause, but am uncomfortable with their tactics. From Reuters.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

The American contingent on the trip will consist of American Birding Association President, Jeff Gordon, Science Editor for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , Gus Axelson, and U.S. I’m not sure how this happened again, that I be lumped in with such illustrious company, but I am certainly not going to complain.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

a 501(c)3 non-profit video production company focused on addressing wildlife conservation issues. What followed was a truly remarkable citizen science effort led by the North American Bluebird Society to construct nest boxes and restore bluebird populations back to historic levels.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

From the Science Insider. Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota charged last year with felony conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act agreed yesterday to a plea bargain.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2009

The group was formed to protest the activities of Huntingdon Life Sciences in Franklin Township, N.J. The company had been a target of animal activists since video footage surfaced on television in the 1990s depicting animal abuse at its laboratory in the United Kingdom.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

There are also countless field guides, birding tour companies, birding festivals, birding books and magazines, and bird-related conservation organizations. My impression is that most young birders are eBirders, a trend that will surely continue due to its convenience, accessibility, and contribution to science.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

There are companies that track traffic on websites, and they are interesting, but seem duplicative of other data. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities.

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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. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. Most of these photos are by photographers associated with the USFWS and Wisconsin Dept.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2016

The science currently believes that up to twenty five percent of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef could be lost to bleaching in the next forty years. We had to move rather fast to get off the reef due to the tide racing in across the very flat surface and we soon found ourselves in the company of twenty six Sooty Oystercatchers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

In the publishing world, the Audubon series became famous as proof that packaging firms like Chanticleer could work successfully with respected publishing firms and the company went on to package many other titles for Knopf, including, in 2000, a new field guide called The Sibley Guide to Birds. (If

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 8, 2011

In an industry first, Hill’s Science Diet Weight Loss System offers pre-packaged meals for your dog! We think this is a great idea from a company that we have had great experiences with. Not only is it good for your pet to be at a healthy weight, but you can even enter for a chance to win $1,000,000!!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition provides the science behind our leading petcare brands. Mars Petcare is a segment of Mars, Incorporated, a private, family-owned company employing more than 65,000 associates in 68 countries worldwide. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates. FEDELE BAUCCIO Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company Palo Alto, Calif., That sounds like a win-win to us.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

There is one member of this group who works for a pharmaceutical company. She is the "science" one and likes to call herself an "independent" on the political landscape. I do enjoy reading books and discussing them, but I have a quandary that I'm going to post about. She is a practicing Catholic. That's all fine, except for one thing.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Photographs (most are from photographic stock companies) allow the maps to tell visual stories. Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section. Isabelle Lewis and Corinne Pearlman designed the book, with Ms.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Meet the teams: The World Birding Rally teams are composed of tour leaders from four companies: Birding Ecotours (South Africa, led by Duan Biggs); Wings/Sunbird (U.K./U.S., This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even the lyrics of the song echo the art and science of hawk watching, “Link by link, making the connections…”) Chapters are strategically illustrated with David Sibley’s drawings. There is also poetic feel to parts of the book, echoing the passion hawk watchers bring to the science. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, Sept.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Zoe Burke is vice-president and publisher of Pomegranate Communications, the company that published this book, and I think she must have an interest in nature; her other titles include a Nature Discovery series, also illustrated by Charley Harper, and a board book featuring beautiful block prints of birds by Molly Hashimoto.

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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. Durban museum based ornithologist Philip Clancey took numerous expeditions into Zululand and Mozambique, discovering several new subspecies as well as a new species to science, Lemon-breasted Canary in 1961.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

They are also endangered by a loss of habitat, as energy companies encroach on more and more of their territory for oil and gas operations. Sarah Palin of Alaska—that the Fish and Wildlife Service should not list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because science doesn’t support doing so—doesn’t persuade.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Moreover, we are prone to extrapolate; extrapolation was always intrinsic to induction, that primitive propensity that is at the root of all science. Extrapolation in science, however, is under the welcome restraint of stubborn fact: failures of prediction. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978], 37-45, at 44-5 [italics in original])

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

But that is science in hierarchical institutions). (Note from a grumpy ex-scientist: It is absurd that such a highly specific paper has 10 authors – it seems anybody who collected feathers, analyzed them, owned the equipment that analyzed them, or just found them pretty got on the list of authors.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Only then will these companies “do the right thing,” if only to ensure their continued survival. But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. Starting today, I’m no longer eating ground beef.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Herzog and company have also created a bilingual web site to extend the reach of the information in Birds of Bolivia and keep the information current. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

I must say that I never expected us at 10,000 Birds to receive an email asking us if we wanted to review a DVD made from a company dedicated to producing “children’s nature resources (from a Creation perspective).” ” After all, my views on creationism are pretty darn clear.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Drug and chemical companies say they endorse a Europe-wide initiative intended to eventually end the use of animals in research and safety testing. I guess it depends on how much you believe them. The article from UPI is below in its entirety.

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