10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2023
Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. So, I tried again: “This sounds a bit too positive to me.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
How it raised its chicks? Science doesn’t work that way! Stomach content analysis from collected specimens). Describing the position that Linda took with regards to the validity of the science as dishonest may have been unfair. Science Schmience. Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food?
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
The contents are a balance of the visual, the factual, and a form of participant-observation, oriented towards people who know little about penguin habitats, life cycles and conservation issues. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins.
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