10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS). A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). The survey was a join effort with the University of Minnesota.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2012
This was an amazing experience which confirmed the continued destruction of the forest caused by the insatiable expansionism of humans. Here is a tiny sample of the birds: Three-toed Jacamar Red-legged Seriema Saw-billed Hermit Hooded Berryeater Bertonis Antbird Guilt-edge Tanager.
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Critter News
JULY 26, 2009
experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said. The experiments range from small procedures such as taking blood and tissue samples to invasive brain surgery and inducing incurable diseases such as Parkinson's and cancer. Bad news from the Guardian.
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.” It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans. Others develop food allergies or intolerances due to an auto-immune disease, where dogs, like humans, will react to foods that are typically normal for consumption (e.g., milk in lactose intolerant humans ).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2013
The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. This is what got me, the incongruity. Some of them are even birders.
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