Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2010

We're definitely seeing an increase in ship strikes - it's awful," said Mary Jane Schramm, spokeswoman for the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

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JULY 18, 2022

Another puzzling thing to me, as for me, the ideal number of people to live with would be somewhere between zero and one but definitely not above 1. I gave up my US citizenship a few years ago and looking at recent events such as “Right vs. Wrong”, it was one of my better decisions. End of side note. meters instead of 0.7

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JUNE 9, 2022

If I was an ornithologist aiming for a grant, I would now definitely highlight the need for more research on this topic. The researchers are quite aware of the differences between humans and birds and thus have completely ignored another explanation for this behavior.

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MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

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MAY 18, 2011

The bottom line is that we do not have enough information or research to give a definitive answer as to whether to not it’s harmful to birds. They are big, expensive and it can take up to five years to attract them even if you have the right habitat.

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MARCH 3, 2020

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). We wouldn't use a brain-damaged human, right?

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JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

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MARCH 31, 2014

In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

The reasons given by “no” voters centered on a hybrid zone between Myrtle and Audubon’s warblers in the Canadian Rockies (in which, apparently, birds of both types freely interbreed) and on the fact that the research into the complex was still ongoing. wing length; Brelsford et al.

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MAY 12, 2013

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. Definitely my personal favorite of Africa’s pink birds is the delicate Pink-throated Twinspot. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The first two questions were never definitely answered. A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 220

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MAY 4, 2017

And, the next time I travel south (and, there’s an excellent chance that will happen within the next year), I will definitely once more read The New Neotropical Companion , by John Kricher, the latest version of this nature classic. That sentence really doesn’t begin to describe this very smart and highly readable book.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We went this route because he isn't putting weight on his back right leg anymore (you can even see the muscle atrophy--look at the difference--it's not because of the angle). He sure was a trooper, though. He stood for the first 10 minutes, then lied down for the remaining 20 and didn't make a peep.

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JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. Sections are clearly marked with bold type and the font size is just right–not too big, not too small. They expand the definition of this book from identification guide to avian reference book.

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APRIL 21, 2016

After much research and consideration given to this subject I have reached the conclusion that the only two groups of people that give a hoot about what the actual Duck Stamp looks like are the stamp artists and the philatelists. Sometimes the easiest path is not the right one. Leave the duck stamp alone!

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JULY 6, 2021

It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book! He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Is all that material on Selkirk needed?

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APRIL 13, 2024

I might have to add the Dallas airport staff to the list of things Buffon was right about. Since it wasn’t Christmas and we were definitely not in a ballet theater this could only mean one thing: Clark’s Nutcracker. I flew into Denver from Mexico. This is a simple grey and black bird but I have always wanted to see one.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. His employers were magnanimous in granting him time to research what was to be his magnum opus, published over the course of 20 years – the four-part Birds of the Belgian Congo. Most definitely so.

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JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Does that sound like an accurate description of what these refuges are becoming?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born. It’s a good feeling, to see that there has been a little progress.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

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MAY 23, 2023

Birders often play a vital role in monitoring bird populations, contributing data to scientific research, and participating in citizen science initiatives that help track bird distributions, migration patterns, and breeding behaviors. Analysis : The first and third paragraphs seem right to me, but the second is weaker, in my view.

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JULY 16, 2020

While at the National University of Mongolia, he conducted research on illustrating birds in the field, including at bird-ringing stations. He has served as a field ornithologist and expert on a number of research projects including Birds of the World and Migratory Birds of Prey.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Text is on the left, plates are on the right. The map positioned next to Turquoise-browed Motmot is definitely the map for Blue-throated Motmot (I checked both Neotropical Birds and Handbook of the Birds of the World website). The images on the right, from the Peru field guide, are more intense in color. It’s a puzzle.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Well that depends on several factors, the most important of which are the definitions of the terms “remote” and “endemic” My subjective thoughts on remoteness are that the term should be defined by two factors: 1. How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. Birds of Cyprus” (BOC – left) vs. “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG – right). The Birds of Cyprus definitively. Colin Richardson is an ornithologist with a particular interest in bird migration in the Middle East.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I don’t want some researcher a hundred years from now wondering if my single-observer White-winged Dove in Queens was real so I had to add a photo. You can’t even see my visit to Trinidad and Tobago on this map but you definitely notice Kazakhstan !). So, of course, I’ve spent a couple of hours uploading some more.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The photo of the Tundra Swan at right is by Ken Behrens.) The flocking descriptions are also highly specific, telling us if the species tends to flock with other birds, and which ones, or how they are spaced out in a flock, and if the flock is a definite V or a messy U or a long, drawn-out line. ” I agree.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

But they were definitely not birds. And this is where the latest research related to Archaeopteryx comes in. The new research looks in detail at another fossil, Xiaotingia zhengi , which is not on the bird lineage, being one of those non-birds with bird like traits. Archaeopteryx went right back to being a bird again.

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MARCH 1, 2022

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. They are hover-gleaners, birds that feed while flying or hovering in the air, picking insects off of foliage (this definition is straight from the Glossary at the back of the book).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

They range from encyclopedic listings of facts to loving portraits, like the Falcon essay, which sets its tone with its definition of falcons as “the jet fighters of the bird world.” If there is an aspect of the book that reflects author personality, it is these family accounts.

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North America America Birds Family 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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MARCH 9, 2011

We have avian beauty right in our European back yards as well, and need not seek cover when encountering birders from far-away shores. And definitely take a look at gulls. Jakob: whoa, you are perfectly right! This it is not entirely fair and far from … [pause again] … well, not very close to true. You are trapped!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other. It definitely was a small dragonfly, and all photos show it with flat wings. I imagine length and weight are also the reason the species accounts are sequential; one following right after the other, as opposed to one species per page. More on this later.)

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APRIL 5, 2016

A minor item, but I like to get these things right.) It’s heavily illustrated with both drawings (72 Colour Plates, 920 drawings) and photographs (over 650), and employs extensive references to and from each section, which makes research relatively easy. Looking further, the book itself says ‘83’ in the introduction.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m going to go right to a discussion of the Species Accounts, because I know that’s where you all want to be, with the warblers. They are hover-gleaners, birds that feed while flying or hovering in the air, picking insects off of foliage (this definition is straight from the Glossary at the back of the book).

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