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10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2022
So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. Thus, there is a good amount of online information for planning purposes.
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. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2017
How much do birders value a birding experience? The economic “impact” of a birding festival can be estimated by looking at expenditures of attendees ( e.g., hotel rooms, meals, souvenirs, transportation costs, etc.). I emailed the authors and asked about their research and their use of eBird data.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 It’s about packaging, marketing, distribution, transportation, and lobbying. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Maybe not as obvious, but probably the most important.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. 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.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2012
Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Homing pigeons were apparently able to find their way home after being transported in a closed box a long distance away (many hundreds of miles in some cases). In any event, they were surprisingly good at this.
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