Remove Course Remove Document Remove Science Remove Species
article thumbnail

Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. In the US, of course, we have meteorologists for that.

Science 151
article thumbnail

Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. per cent of individuals of a species at a given time” and a vagrant bird as a bird that shows up outside of this range (p. It’s not always easy reading.

Birds 260
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

10,000 Birds

Another paper recently published in Forest Ecology and Management documented that EAB predators’ behavior matches their growing numbers. If the course of the invasion runs as predicted, according to Flower and Whelan, then “ash is likely to go the way of elm trees that were largely eradicated from the landscape by Dutch elm disease.”

article thumbnail

Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

article thumbnail

An Osprey Moment of Truth

10,000 Birds

It’s a gamble every year, of course. It’s been a delight to see how enthused our Osprey-watchers are, as they meticulously document the nest reconstruction that our birds are undertaking and their matings as well (let’s just say the pair seems very happy to see each other.) The Ospreys have returned to Dunrovin.

Eggs 167
article thumbnail

A Climate Change Crash

10,000 Birds

Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. There are about 10,000 species of them, after all, which is a lot for a vertebrate. But, that is also a naive view.

2018 101
article thumbnail

Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is divided into three parts: “Introduction,” “Avifaunal Overview,” and “Species Accounts.” The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. It’s a very mixed chapter.