10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

And summary and discussion of recent research on how birds have changed the frequency and pitch of their songs in response to human noise and the possible consequences of those changes (again, we know that we don’t know). I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

For example, in the Delaware Bay, warming coastal waters can cause horseshoe crabs to lay their eggs earlier than normal; conversely, more intense and frequent coastal storms can cause late spawning. In both cases, knots, which feed on the crabs’ eggs, can miss their peak refueling opportunity. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. Sooty Terns, with their jet black heads and bills, have been the subject of one of the longest continuous bird studies in the world.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 234