10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. The photo also illustrates how our drought affects two groups of resident and wintering birds (which number in the hundreds of thousands). But obsessed I am.

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Mexico Investigation Science Experience 235

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 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass). It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner.

Birds 233

Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 233

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. By twos and fours they arrive and scatter in small groups among the canopy to their favorite perches in iron, cecropia and aguaje palm trees. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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. Well, they live in groups, something I would never survive. In Black-throated T**s , nest building is done by both sexes, though the female takes the dominant role (HBW).

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China Birds Breeders Species 147