10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. a tropical delight! What a sight.

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Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull. (p.

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). The general location of the section on Ducks, Geese, and Swans can be found in the front, in the Contents listing.

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North America Birds Species America 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

Destined to be forever written off as ducks which which they share an affinity with water and little else, or maybe coots primarily among those who may reside near large numbers of those squabbling, aquatic rails, or more likely ignored as they slink back into the vegetation to do their business away from lookie-loos and carriers of bread bags.

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Jordan Guatemala Birds South America 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. One is duck sex, which can be, he says, “elaborately aesthetic or shockingly violent and deeply troubling.” Indeed, it’s when Prum tries to apply his theories ( viz.,

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 104

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. Taken individually, sourness and bitterness can be essential flavor components in beer, but throughout history, they’ve wisely kept apart.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. However, at least one source reported that in 2002, there were approximately 700,000 copies in print of the Sibley Guide to Birds and 250,000 of Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America.

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Wildlife Portland 2002 Collecting 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 178