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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. date the split of those branches to 88 million years ago, well before the extinction event that wiped out all non-bird dinosaurs and many other forms of life about 66 million years ago (the K-Pg boundary). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.
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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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. But now there is some research on that. And, every now and then one of the Loons disappears too.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from a cosmic impact event about 65 million years ago, the ancestors of modern birds were different from modern birds in many ways, but also similar in many ways. So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.
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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