10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 231

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

Birds 221

Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 219

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

One of Don’s first jobs after completing his training was translocating North Island Saddlebacks , which were at that time confined to a single island off Northland. The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback.

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Species New Zealand Rats Endangered Species 232