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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2024
For Coal T**s , resident birds were found to be slimmer than transients, which makes sense as they have better knowledge of the available resources and thus less volatility in their food supply (and of course slimmer birds are better at not being eaten themselves). In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I wish there was more discussion of research techniques and resources. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. As most birders know, playback is controversial in the birding world.
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?
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.
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. There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
264 
Let's personalize your content