10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Like most conferences, this one had an exhibit hall and poster session, too. Emptied of their contents, of course.).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. Back to Gipsy and toward a distant group of farmers working their fields. The conference was organized by excellent J.N.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2013
The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons. Long-legged, long-necked flamingos have over the years been grouped variously with storks, waterfowl, and the stilts and avocets. The groups do, contrary to van Tuinen et al.’s ” Some morphologists, notably Brad Livezey, Richard L. Zusi and Robert W.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Technology to the rescue! And you might think you know them but you might be mistaken.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. Let me know your recommendations for books kids would enjoy reading, or having read to them, this summer.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2014
by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. Number 57, Great Northern? and branches into an all too brief recounting of books and movies featuring birders.
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