10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
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).
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2013
Everybody knows sparrows, except for the fact that most people don’t know anything about sparrows.Kim Todd sets out to rectify this in a small, elegant book that covers both House Sparrows , the Passer tribe, and the other birds colloquially called sparrows throughout the world (albeit she concentrates most on North America and Britain.)
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2022
Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. Which of course is the perfect transition to that bird, the Common Myna. If I was a Rainbow Lorikeet, I would probably only go outside at night, when darkness covers my exuberant colors.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, the goats grew small and nimble, shy and drought-tolerant, through natural selection.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2018
It contains numerous citations to the literature, as the process must be based on the best available science. The goose has also proven highly adaptable: it is at home in many human-altered environments ( e.g. , golf courses and parks) and is an opportunistic feeder, consuming a variety of native and non-native vegetation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats.
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