10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

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. Even more importantly, right now you can become a member of International Bird Rescue and double any donation you make! So as Arnold would say, “Do it!

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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.” Sounds like clever behavior by the parrotbills, right? Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2018

But my experiences in Belize and Honduras give me a good basis in the birds of the region and I have plenty of time to study and learn what to expect with the endemics. Then you learn if you got the answer right or wrong and, this is important, you rate the photo or sound clip before you get the next quiz.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I like Birding by Impression.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. Our Beat Writers and their schedule can be found right here but don’t go clicking through just yet – there is exciting news to share!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow. Structurally, that long and low body, the pot-belly and the flat head.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. Lovitch takes the practice of birding ten steps beyond.

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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science ," thankfully wasn't called Pepper, the stolen dog that changed American science," so that was an encouraging sign. I look forward, with a tad of trepidation, to the part about Pepper being a turning point in science. Pepper was a beloved family pet.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? Maybe on paper.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick. I was in primary school then, probably early grades, but I knew that whatever I do, I cannot afford to turn my back to them.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. Animal Person points out this comment made by Daniel Engber, the author. Bring on the PETA hotties!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! Yasha paved the way for what would later happen with Chaser, as Yasha often would take part in many classroom behavioral experiments. Sometimes, they might even know too much!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. After all this, the unhappy bird would be released back into the air.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. Males sport a larger heart-shaped bare batch encircled by pale fur, that shows off their dominance status. Portrait of a male Gelada.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. ” So if any of you birders have a science background and are looking for something to do, please move to eastern California and sort this out for us. 2 of which make their home in the United States. This coastal jay was photographed at Ano Nuevo State Park, CA.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2009

However, there's a context here, and that context is that the message is coming from an organization that focuses on the science angle of our use of sentient nonhumans (i.e., animals in research, in schools or as food). And they concentrate on the health aspects of removing animals from your diet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

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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. Encountering a spark bird is a transformative experience for many birders.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The poem is on the left side of each two-page spread and a factual paragraph about the nesting process–usually brief, but sometimes fairly detailed–is located on the right side. Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. And, as he did a decade ago, the joys and benefits of birding.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? It is, as the Tambopata research website says: …a unique forest environment, with the highest concentrations of avian clay licks in the world. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. When I came across Philosophy, I immediately saw that it was the tree from which the branch of science had grown.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. This female Streak-backed Oriole is the rightful nest owner. As it happens, there were no Martins to be found that day.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird. That’s right…. Remember the blog carnival craze? Presenting the Nature Blog Network, the toplist for the nature blog community.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”**

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.

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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. Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be. Worst of all were all the hyphen issues.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

Yep, that’s right. So often, scientific models and predictions remain intangible to people; using my day-to-day bird experiences, I want to show people that they will lose an element of their lives if these birds disappear forever. I really, really like data. On May 22, 2015, I embarked on a 365 day-long project.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. Is this the type of avian experience we want?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

The research, although widely accepted, was greeted with some skepticism early on (Sutton 1966), and eventually followup attempts to replicate his research and experiments near Clyde River Nunavut by Richard Schnell found that the data could not have been have been collected as Smith’s publications had indicated.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

Those readers with slightly morbid interests might want to seek out a paper in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences describing the case of heavy mixed infection of Golden Pheasants by Heterakis isolonche and H. ” Sounds more sophisticated, right? ” Sounds more sophisticated, right?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Then again, why would anyone name a bird after a botanist, let alone one I only just made up right now? In the right light, the male Common Pheasant can look ridiculously attractive. I should also point out that contrary to popular belief, the Common Starling is not named after Edward Common (1858-1892), the English botanist.

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