10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. More resources on this topic: Wildfire! This is about 35 miles West of my home.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
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. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
So, essentially, the rail seems to be a habitat generalist on its small island, capable of exploiting a variety of food resources, and it is, generally, safe from predation. Its eggs are not known, it does not migrate, and it feeds, I understand, on insects and worms. The bird will therefore now be known as. Atlantisia Rogersi.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Large, colorful, beautifully designed, it is also deeply flawed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I wish there was more discussion of research techniques and resources. ” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Technology to the rescue! Speaking of back-of-the-book materials, there is no bibliography.
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