10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Different promotions and activities are carried out to boost the use of eBird including Global Big Day, a worldwide event that happened on May 5th. This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day.

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MARCH 6, 2019

The World Premiere of Superpower Dogs, an inspiring true story of extraordinary dogs and their life-saving superpowers, opens on March 9th at the California Science Center. We are so excited about the upcoming IMAX movie, Superpower Dogs! The following week … Continue reading →

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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

JULY 18, 2022

Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.” Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees. meters instead of 0.7

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2014

Now we gamble again (literally as well as figuratively – there’s a split-pot prize for predicting the dates of arrival, egg-laying, and other major events) on the hope that they will lay viable eggs and successfully rear young. The many eyes on this particular citizen-science prize have also yeilded other results as well.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2017

The World’s biggest citizen science wildlife count takes place this weekend. It is a very simple and accessible event which requires each observer to sit for one hour in their garden or a local park. Their observations are then entered to the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch site.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

In the middle of the 20 th century bluebird populations across the country plummeted because of a decrease in nesting cavities, habitat loss, severe climatic events, and competition from introduced species such as House Sparrows. This would be a tragic turn of events for several reasons. Tree Swallows are also cavity nesters.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2015

If you are in Atlanta and find yourself on the southeast edge of town, looking for birds, Woodlands Garden can be found at the intersection of Scott Blvd and Clairemont Ave (a short way beyond Fernbank Natural History Museum and Fernbank Science Centre) at Google Earth ref; 33 47 7.78N 84 18 12.61W.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event. If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. I speak of flight, of course. This is a key feature of birds. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. But we also know that rapid change can have long term devastating effects.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Do it for science! To that end they are attaching lightweight tracking devices to Snowy Owls so we can learn what individual owls are doing. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. Will you put up $20 to make this irruption meaningful in a scientific sense? Do it for Bill!

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Owls Research Science Collecting 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The scientific species name stricklandii commemorates Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853), a British geologist, zoologist, and the coordinator of the Strickland Code, a code of nomenclature for taxonomic classification prepared by a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, first published in 1842 ( source ).

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JULY 31, 2010

Every year they host a great event to help raise the funds that they need to continue their rescue efforts. Jenna Fischer hosts the event, which is being held this year on September 11th, 2010. Event partners and sponsors include: PETCO, Central Life Sciences, Natural Balance, Febreze and Dyson.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There is no doubt in my mind that the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun t (GBBC) is the most impressive citizen science endeavor in the world. This year the event was even preceded by an article in the New York Times. The 2016, the GBBC ran from February 12th through February 15th.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ What was left to write about? ” I wondered.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

Not only has this live camera feed provided a wonderful educational resource for science teachers across the country, but it has also shed light on some very interesting behaviors of these owls. We have set up an incredibly popular live camera feed on a pair of these diminutive owls at a school in Broward County.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Others : There are many birding festivals , including several large and well-attended ones, but attendance numbers for any individual event do not provide much information about the overall number of birders. For example, if just 1% of birders “liked” either eBird or the ABA, that would pencil out to 10 million birders.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

Her compositions were remarkable for a blend of science with the craftsmanship of an accomplished writer and tended to reveal little-known facts, such as in her story of the chimney swift. Her short unfinished piece about the event is full of images of birds and the Appalachian highlands below them. “I

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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. There are now no excuses except a lack of curiosity. And, nobody wants to admit that. He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

In addition to all the community events, garage sales, and pancake breakfasts, was a notice of a seminar on the “Sea Birds of the San Juan Islands” at 6:00 Pm that night. Rebecca did a beautiful job, not only discussing the birds on the area, but blending in some environmental science, and the issues that can affect the local bird species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The crow was absorbed (or “lumped”) into American Crow with the 2020 checklist updates, an event covered by the Audubon Society website on September 04, 2020 (“Why the Northwestern Crow Vanished Overnight,” [link].

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Over the next 20 or 30 years there will likely be some dramatic events along these lines. Keep watching.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It wasn’t a particularly eventful year in and of itself, but for those who weren’t around, a lot has changed since then. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago.

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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. Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

In addition to ol’ split tail there were a host of other birds around, and the joy of birding with the Science Chimp, as Julie is sometimes called, is that she notices and appreciates behaviors that a less attentive birder might have missed.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Others : There are many birding festivals , including several large and well-attended ones, but attendance numbers for any individual event do not provide much information about the overall number of birders. There are companies that track traffic on websites, and they are interesting, but seem duplicative of other data.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The Feathery Tribe is both a biography of Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institute’s first curator of birds, and a study of the historical and intellectual events which gave birth and form to ornithology. Ridgway, born in 1850 in Mr. Carmel, Illinois, was a boy many of us would recognize; all he wanted to do was bird. And, draw birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. According to the U.S.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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JANUARY 8, 2011

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2021

Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. In any event, it seems unlikely that different methods of determining an American eBirder would change the overall numbers that much. I believe that FWS wildly overestimates the number of birders. (Or

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

In any event, they were surprisingly good at this. David Dickman, in the April 26th Science Express , write: Many animals rely on the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial orientation and navigation. But in any event, one could imagine that magnetic events including reversals would have an effect on bird populations.

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