10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2017
And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. Stephen, leading to his martyrdom, and the species needed to be punished; or that a Wren had woken a band of Viking warriors prior to a raid by the Irish on their camp, leading to the defeat of the Irish forces and lasting interspecies animosity. Or does it?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
This second edition covers 685 species found in the continental U.S. and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
In 1776, James Cook sailed past the islands due to charts and navigation of du Fresne’s second in command, Julien Crozet. Although Prince Edward Island and Marion are close enough, only 21 km apart, Prince Edward is free of invasives, besides four plant species, so offers a great comparison for success.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Species diversity drops and the systems become very simple and uninteresting, and probably not very stable.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
For many grassland species, our vast expanses of tilled and plowed fields, orchards and vineyards, pastures and rangeland offer an abundance of convenient food and shelter – and some bolder birds even wander indoors to find these things in our barns and stables. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands. Not only that, but another species of starling was already called Calornis inornata.). Rats did it in, as they did so many species. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?
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