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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ).

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. She does, and her narrative serves as a role model for how to write about birds simply and knowledgeably; informing birds’ family stories with scientific facts and research findings. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. And of birds courting and mating.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. These books are concerned with behavior.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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He pairs conventional wisdom with actual research on such wisdom and speaks to experts whoā€™ve been pondering the issues from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The research, much of the time, doesnā€™t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). All day long.

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Lest we Forget ā€“ BP Oil Spill 2010

10,000 Birds

May 13, 2010 BP boss, Tony Hayward, labels the spill as “relatively tiny” in comparison to the ocean. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. May 19, 2010 Oil washes ashore on mainland Louisiana. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.

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Grallards: New Zealandā€™s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

10,000 Birds

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck. It’s a very unfair comparison, but it can be hard to explain, in layman’s terms, what is being lost.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

10,000 Birds

In some species accounts, notably Song Sparrow, this text reads as a carefully researched, finely detailed ornithological/historical essay. And, the 1996 volume includes information on nests and eggs, a topic not covered by the Peterson guide. He has an academic background in German and medieval studies, including a Ph.D.