10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. But that’s another story. Here’s the idea.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 221

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Hard to imagine nowadays, this majestic mountain setting was a major communist guerilla stronghold in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and the region is scarred by the events and the memories of them.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 267

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up! Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. They do this by providing toys and other items.

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Shelters Animal Adoptable Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Rapai devotes two chapters to the fire, illustrating, like a good reporter, both the details of the event itself and the bad and good that came out of it.

Michigan 221

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. They may go on birding trips, join birding events, participate in birding competitions, and collaborate with other birders to gather information about rare or elusive species.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991). The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Which would be weird. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. Further afield, many seabird colonies, such as those in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, are on very low elevation islands (less than 10 feet above sea level) and are already at risk of washovers in big storm events and tsunamis.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator. The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community.

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 262

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I realized a curious thing while researching some of the creatures in this guide–some of the common names given for the flying fish appear to have originated with co-author Steve N.G. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet. And, George Armistead is the perfect author for this title.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

As an aside, I well remember the time that Binford came to our quaint little department at Harvard to meet with Isaac and his research team (us) to sort out this difference in understanding of human evolution. I did do some research on this topic, working with others.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. However most recent research places them amongst the Panthera.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. Documentaries are not ethnographic research films, they are mediative realities, reflecting an individual’s perspective on a specific person or event.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s more, so much more, in this highly informative, detail-packed, research-based description of bird behavior. He aims to bring together all ornithological and ecological research on birds and winter the world over–not just in areas covered by snow–and summarize the findings in non-scientific language.

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Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate. What events transpire miles away that make a certain destination attractive to birds and wildlife in one way or another? I am often guilty of neglecting “place&# when birding.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. In any event, they were surprisingly good at this. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them.

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Compassion Research Cooking Transported 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have a negative effect on the viability of populations by causing increased mortality in a subtle but significant way. The experiment was run over several years with several hundred birds.

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Killing Zebras Birds Research 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Why is this?

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 146

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I imagine the female bosses the male around, but maybe I am anthropomorphizing there based on my experience in recently working on an apartment with my wife. Given the recent global developments and events, I understand the bird very well.

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China Birds Breeders Species 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Mike is a familiar face to anyone who regularly attends birding events as he is one of the faces of Nikon Sport Optics for the birding world. One of his most memorable birding experiences was the six months spent in Northeast Brazil performing research on a new species of bird called the Araripe Manakin.

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Brazil Venezuela Iowa Guatemala 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The Bird Watching Society meets just about every weekend, so birders should check their activities calendar for scheduled events. Do your research. While I only dedicated part of my time to scheduled birding events, I always had my bins handy. Guests are usually welcome for a nominal fee. Said thrush. So don’t be afraid!

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. But now there is some research on that. Every now and then you see an Eagle and a Loon interact a bit.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

With all of those birds singing and showing off their breeding colors, it’s no surprise that we see major bird races like Champions of the Flyway and The World Series of Birding , along with other main birding events like the Global Big Day.

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Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2023

Their goal is simple yet lofty: “We hope these redescriptions will arouse some interest in the chewing lice of shorebirds among researchers working with lapwings” As I mentioned in one of my posts this spring, for me the personal start of the migration season is when I see my first male colorful flycatcher.

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Birds China Taiwan Raised 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

.” And, if you don’t believe them, just take a look at some of the photographic comparisons of species they present: Or, of albatross plumages: Or, read about the taxonomic confusions and scientific lapses in research on petrels, Albatrosses, storm-petrels, and diving-petrels.

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Albatross North America Birds Groups 149