Reddit Animals

MAY 9, 2023

I’m wondering if y’all went to school for animal science, veterinary science, just have a general love for taking care of animals or have experience through volunteering with such organizations? I have a desire to learn about animals science/ veterinary science so that I can better care for animals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Obviously, those who seek the best views often aspire to the best optics, which we can all agree are modern miracles of science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. When did birding become so intimately intertwined with technology? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Donna]: Danielle Whittaker takes a personal viewpoint of a very different aspect of ornithology in The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent , a perfect blend of science and autobiography. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 12, 2023

While I am a science geek through and through (chemical compounds and reactions are very interesting). My question here is all I really have on paper is chemical experience. With that experience being the most I can give, how would one even begin to enter a different field such as this.

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Bats Mammals Science Experience 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The EU-funded LIFE+ project, called Reason for Hope, is coordinated by the Austrian association Förderverein Waldrappteam, and is claimed to be the first science-based attempt to reintroduce a migratory species to its area of origin. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I have to admit that I abstained from the CBC this year, prizing personal comfort over citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did you partake in any Christmas Bird Count excitement this weekend? Sign me up for a Memorial Day Bird Count any year!

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2017 Science Birds Experience 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Many datasets were compiled directly from citizen science efforts, including Christmas bird counts! On 10000 Birds, I usually write about my love of searching for avian friends in local hotspots or novel ecosystems.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2016

These findings, published in The Condor , draw from citizen science efforts coordinated by scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment Canada. They recruited homeowners to walk the perimeters of their houses each day, looking for evidence of bird-window collisions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

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? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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New York Mammals Science Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300). If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000). How Did We Do on the Test?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2013

To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Winter has come early and often to Western NY. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. This sounds – and is – dark. They don’t, and I know it.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. 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. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. If you have an advanced degree in biology with an emphasis on birds , it doesn’t guarantee that you will always work with birds. You may work in biology, but it could be in any field.

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Arkansas Science Research Farming 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Nestled between the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Shanghai offers a captivating blend of urban charm and natural wonders, making it a must-visit destination for birders seeking a unique and diverse avian experience. The clash of nature and urban progress creates a bizarre and sometimes frustrating experience for birdwatchers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How much do birders value a birding experience? But there are few transactions that can be analyzed to determine how much value birding experiences, themselves, provide to a birder. This includes bird-watching experiences. Some aspects of birding can be calculated and studied economists. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

The famous bird experts, Thorogood and Davies, carried out an experiment which… reveal that social learning is specific to the cuckoo morph that neighbors mob. Our results suggest that selection for mimicry and polymorphisms comes not only from personal experience but also from social learning.

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Hungary 2012 Science Eggs 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

But I suspect that my citizen-science monitoring outweighs any damage done with this practice here, especially since I am the only one birding most of my sites, and can only visit each one for a few hours every two or three months. If this one were Elegant , that white of the eyering would extend in an arc down toward the neck.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

You may believe I am making this up (well-justified based on past experience), but there is indeed a study titled “Socioeconomic and Cultural Importance of The Yellow-Fronted Canary (Serinus Mozambicus) in Northern Benin” examining the background of canary traders. They exercised this activity in part-time (96.5%).

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

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. They are currently running their Second-Annual Banded Pelican Contest. So as Arnold would say, “Do it!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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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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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. [The How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? It upsets them.

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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. Having never birded in Mexico at all I was initially concerned about identifying the myriad species that can be seen.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. I started eBirding about the same time I started birding, and I made an early executive decision (a very good one) that any pre-eBird observations simply did not count.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! Also, it's a great way to get girls interested in science!

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2010

It will house rodents for use in experiments. Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? Because it will create JOBS! From West Virginia Metro News.

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