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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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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.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). One of these pages is dedicated to the harm and benefit the species has for humans, while a full page is dedicated to instructions on how to hunt the bird: The translation of the first sentence indicates the general tone: “They are not very shy, and easy to shoot.”

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Endemic Birds of Brazil

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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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UK Records Increase in Animal Testing

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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.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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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.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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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.

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