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Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

10,000 Birds

This comprehensive book features concise identification descriptions and is richly illustrated—including more than 650 colour photos of habitats and their wildlife, 150 distribution maps, 200 diagrams, and 150 silhouettes depicting each habitat alongside a human figure.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

10,000 Birds

birders are rare, so the recent release of a “ National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons ” is notable. In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS). Comprehensive surveys of U.S.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). : “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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Birding northern Serbia, or a sudden bird tour

10,000 Birds

Almost completely without human infrastructure, this reserve has the largest complexes of steppe habitats in the country, making it a uniquely preserved typical Pannonian landscape. To allow for a better comparison, all three soared in the same thermal. It turned out to be a Long-legged Buzzard !

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The Conflict Between Animal Welfare and Agribusiness

Critter News

It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison. Tags: corporate lies humane society agriculture agribusiness. This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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