10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish. They are excellent science writers, patiently explaining the physiological processes involved in deep diving in penguins, seals, and human.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 160

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 183

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

Having once been burned by wrong information on the internet, I decided to check this for myself. 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.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

There’s no information as to when these European colonies died out, but we do know that it was a long time ago. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Because eBird has so much data that can be organized and displayed in so many ways, it is easy to find fascinating information. It is worth pausing to marvel at the comprehensiveness and accessibility of eBird information. GPS-tracked miles.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 149

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I also would have liked more specific information on the studies themselves–authors, years, where I can read them. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information.

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Where did this information come from? Many datasets were compiled directly from citizen science efforts, including Christmas bird counts! Roseate Spoonbills are predicted to move northward as a result of climate change. Photo: John Fox/Audubon Photography Awards. degrees C.

Science 116

Science Florida Fox Protection 116

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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Oregon Washington Birds Chad 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. The Identification information is sometimes very long and detailed because, in addition to the variations named above, some odonate species feature polymorphism–many forms.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 262

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.

Chicago 185

Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 185

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. Therefore, while neighbors alert hosts to local cuckoo activity, frequency-dependent social information selects for a cuckoo plumage polymorphism to thwart host detection.

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Hungary 2012 Science Eggs 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I imagine the female bosses the male around, but maybe I am anthropomorphizing there based on my experience in recently working on an apartment with my wife. In Black-throated T**s , nest building is done by both sexes, though the female takes the dominant role (HBW).

China 147

China Birds Breeders Species 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I was hoping that there would at least be a species list in the Appendix, but no, seekers of this taxonomic information must resort to other sources. I mention this because I would like to see more attention paid to the usability aspect of books like this, written to impart authoritative, scientific information to lay people.

Turtles 203

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 203

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.’ Van Remsen, to the Louisiana birding community whose members respond immediately and enthusiastically to Marybeth’s requests for information and access. ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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. Floyd makes it all seem effortless.

Birds 115

Birds North America Breeding America 115

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. You can also “tag” the photo with additional information, like if the bird is in the hand or if there is a watermark added by the photographer.

Mexico 107

Mexico Belize Honduras Science 107

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. The text is divided into three parts, informational stories or ‘essays’ as Sibley calls them. How are they different?

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

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. It is not a field guide, though it offers a wealth of information about field identification. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

I had just completed the southern circuit of the country, connecting with many fabulous species, experiences, and places of the region — lekking Long-wattled Umbrellabird , the magnificent Ceiba trees and Tumbesian endemics of Jorupe Preserve, more than a dozen antpittas (including the famous Jocotoco Antpitta ), and more.

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Ecuador California Condor Blackbirds Parrots 201

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The natural, whole-food pet supplement was formulated by Dr. Patricia Jordan, a naturopathic veterinarian with more than 25 years of experience with an education in both conventional and holistic veterinary medicine. The company is committed to providing the best nutrition and super food supplement that science and nature have to offer.

Seals 100

Seals Jordan Animal Pets 100

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 ).

Birds 219

Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 219

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. However, how the brain receives and interprets magnetic field information is unknown.

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Compassion Research Cooking Transported 212

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.

America 234

America Industry Squirrels Birds 234

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.

Humane 162

Humane Animal Africa Ukraine 162

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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Los Angeles North America America Species 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

China 186

China 2017 Birds Indonesia 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Detailed information is given for physical description and coloration, size and weight, voice (including contact and courtship calls, juvenile whistles, and various grunts), population and distribution, breeding (habitat, social aspects, courtship, nest, laying, incubation, chick rearing, fledging), food, and principal threats.

Penguins 203

Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, almost none of these questions are asked directly but carefully gleaned by weaving the conversation along in a totally friendly manner, trying to make sure you have all the information necessary to make your client have an unforgettable experience at Cristalino. 12:30PM: Lunch time! ” I would usually ask.

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Otters Parrots Birds Brazil 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Videos, like the illustrations and diagrams included in the book, help make literature about science, especially theoretical science, more accessible to us non-scientists. If you haven’t read The Evolution of Beauty , I suggest you dip into it.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Working as an animal science researcher at colleges or universities. Here’s a quick look at some of those tasks: As a wildlife educator you may:• Live and work at a particular site while you study and research animal behavior• Write informational materials such as brochures and pamphlets• Prepare and implement displays.

Animal 100

Animal Zoos Research Science 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even the lyrics of the song echo the art and science of hawk watching, “Link by link, making the connections…”) Chapters are strategically illustrated with David Sibley’s drawings. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. These are not just drawings of hawks per se.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 228

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

They are intended to convey detailed information in the precise technical language and jargon familiar to the intended audience. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., Initially, scientific papers are written by scientists for other scientists. and Antony W.

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Transported 2011 Research 2012 113

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Having puppies isn’t a fun science experiment. She frequently writes informative articles on pet care and products such as Frontline dog flea treatment on her blog www.pamperthepets.com. By neutering your dog, you completely eliminate the risk of testicular infection and dramatically reduce the risk of anal gland problems.

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Spay Spaying Neutering Pets 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Pink Pigeons were once found throughout Mauritius, but by the 19th century the population became fragmented and by 1986 only 12 or 16 pigeons remained, depending on your source of information, less than 12 by 1991. Is this the type of avian experience we want? On the WCS web page, Ms. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102