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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MARCH 11, 2013

Since this research has a strong citizen science component, we want to help Pavel spread the word: What happens with birdsong during invasion of a new territory? Its simple songs can be assigned to several dialects, broadly distributed in Europe but overlapping in a mosaic fashion. Why Great Britain and New Zealand? Can it work?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. 2022 (available in Europe from Helm/Bloombury). It’s not always easy reading. Press, Feb.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is public outcry greater? What gives? From Cordis News.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

Shorebirds (in Europe: waders) must be an acquired birding taste. In Europe, people start birding when they see a Common Kingfisher or a Golden Oriole , hoping to see more jewels like that, but not a Wood Sandpiper. Quarter of a century later, I jumped at an opportunity to study environmental sciences, and guess what awaited me there?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

It is one of the premiere birding destinations in Europe, where Saker Falcons , Great Bustards , and Black Woodpeckers can be found, to say nothing of Aquatic Warblers , Pygmy Cormorants , and Whiskered Terns. That is all I want to say about that. Anyway, Hungary! Naturalist Markets Manager for Swarovski , Clay Taylor.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Every spring, billions of migratory songbirds in Europe fly north to their breeding grounds. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. Tags: animal experimentation UK europe research alternatives medical research.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” .” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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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

APRIL 9, 2011

If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. If you really want to know what’s creeping up the trunk in Europe, you’ll need to analyse the exact wing pattern, as shown on the picture below.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In later chapters, the maps illustrate global aspects of the dangers posed to birds (coal mining in Appalachia threatens the Cerulean Warbler while lead ingested from ammunition threatens the Spanish Imperial Eagle in Europe). Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section.

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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. Many of the names of the photographers, listed in a 21-page section at the back of the book, are familiar: Glenn Bartley, Brian E.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. It thereby illustrates how pure science advances informed conservation actions to ensure the (short-term) stability of the target population, and how conservation-motivated analyses fed back to advance fundamental understanding of population processes.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Herring Gull The Herring hull is everybody’s idea of a seagull, being present throughout the year at coastal cliffs, beaches, harbors and towns.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But I may well be wrong.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! It bred in large colonies on cliffs and castle ramparts throughout southern and central Europe, before it began a relentless march towards extinction.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. I think this is one of the reasons I enjoy reading his books.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. Although it wasn’t the optimal period (most migrants already gone and wintering birds not there yet), we were looking forward to discovering a new and less birded region of Europe. This one was even singing!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Drug and chemical companies say they endorse a Europe-wide initiative intended to eventually end the use of animals in research and safety testing. I guess it depends on how much you believe them. The article from UPI is below in its entirety.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

The continent of Atlantis was about the size of today’s Western Europe, and it sunk into obscurity off the Iberian Peninsula some time between 700 – 750 AD. It was not Europe, but it was Europe-like.&# It is not about Europe at all. They tell you that it was written in Atlantis in the 6th century AD!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. This strange but beautifully plumaged bird was widely known throughout Europe as the Waldrapp (meaning “Forest Crow”).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

But I found myself wondering things like: If Common Ringed Plovers migrate from here through Europe, and Semipalmated through North America, what happens to the different type of offspring from a single mixed brood? Do the Common Ringed type migrate through Europe and the Semipalmated head south?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

There are, for example, many examples of species that have moved due to (pre-human) climate changes – a dung beetle , now present only in altitudes over 3,000 meters in Tibet, was once the most common dung beetle is northwestern Europe. Thomas’s exposition and argument are, at minimum, well worth serious consideration.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2017

It was damn cold – “Science is a cruel mistress”, a line from Luc Besson’s movie The Big Blue, came to mind – but we remained on the prow. That evening, the snow was covering the trawler, tied at Kladovo wharf.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

But not in Europe either. But I can assure you that just as many men, whose profound knowledge of the natural sciences is known to the world and who are by no means enemies of sensible innovations, also consider the path I have taken to be quite expedient. – Not an in-vitro photo.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

The Latin species name of the Common Greenshank , nebularia , sounds a bit like a science fiction novel to me – however, it means “misty” and apparently is derived from the birds’ misty, marshy habitat (HBW). Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Luckily, here in America we follow the American Model of wildlife management where the animals and fishes are managed for the good of the public and not owned by landowners as is the case in Great Britain and much of the rest of Europe.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

Editor Mitchell is the founder and managing editor of Birdwatch magazine, managing editor of Birdguides, a birding news website, and the author of two books on the birds of Europe and Great Britain. They are use the Objects concept as a framework for retelling the history of birding in an appealing, visual manner.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

.” The illustrations are by Ian Lewington, a British bird artist and birder who has co-authored or contributed to a number of nature books, including Rare Birds of Britain and Europe. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. Wherever you travel, there will be gulls.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Another paper featuring Eurasian Woodcocks was published in the rather pompously titled “Science of The Total Environment” (you can sort of imagine a fanatic leader asking an audience of scientists whether they want the “total environment”). I am not sure I understand the logic of this, but I guess evolution does.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

According to the Post story, computer modeling conducted by Andreas Schmittner (College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University) indicates if we continue "business as usual" and do nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, average temperatures are likely to increase 7.0°F Most scientists agree that a 3.6°F

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