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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

Nat Geo Wild is airing an amazing show tonight called Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! Unique complementary content will also be offered via social media including Facebook ( facebook.com/natgeowildusa ) and Twitter 3 NGC viewers outside the U.S. I for one can’t wait to see what the results of the experiments will be!

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Family–A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

10,000 Birds

Though it is marketed as a “Guide to Every Family” there is no table of contents to the families, just listings of the introductory pages for each suborder. The back-of-the-book material gets more detailed treatment in the table of contents than the core of the book! They just look so content and stable!

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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

10,000 Birds

At some point, a Chinese researcher had a brilliant idea: Let’s prepare a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Grey-backed Shrike! I still like the short species descriptions of eBird much better than the longer ones of the HBW or the dry ones of Wikipedia.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea. Also of use, as Gregory points out in the Introduction, is his experience with painting birds of iridescence, having painted a whole book on sunbirds! and Sicklebill Safaris.

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Oceanic Birds of The World: A Photo Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels. In addition there is a brief Index.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.