10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963. Machi was, of course, only one bird. Barbados, once a British colony is now an independent state and also not party to the Treaty.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so? We were lucky, Alejandra and I,” says Gabe, unironically. “We, By Susan M.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. 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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Of course, the first step is to define what is a ‘vagrant bird,’ a discussion I really appreciated since I’ve noticed that we (as in birders in general) tend to bandy the term about interchangeably with ‘accidental,’ ‘exotic,’ ‘scarce migrant,’ and ‘MEGA MEGA.’
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
Traditionally, of course, falcons have been classified with other diurnal raptors, parrots have been positioned between doves and cuckoos, and seriemas have been lumped with cranes, rails, and other birds in the order Gruiformes. Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids).
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor. But no LGU has yet put its meat-industry courses on the course of ultimate extinction.
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