10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so. It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting. Actual cut marks made by actual stone tools are in fact never unequivocal.

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Madagascar Humane Elephants Bahamas 126

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. Still, I wish I had prepared. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Sea Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 180

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I didn't like the idea of the cloud for categories at first, but now I do because it's a great visual tool to determine what someone's focus (including mine) is. That's a far more useful tool than categories (not that they're the same thing). That's how you build a following and spread your ideas and your writing.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

Lisa had climbed down too, and the Nature Center worker had gone for tools. But, it is a documented bird threat! I haven’t found any articles on Atlantic Coast birds being injured by these dangerous mussels (which are also not very tasty to humans), so I’m thinking that our birds somehow know better.

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California New York New York City New York Times 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. I say almost-comprehensive because the bibliography is heavily tilted towards scientific literature.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 253