10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 247

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?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Attempting to bluff the bear in believing that they were even bigger bears, Hoshino suggested raising their hands, to appear taller. How did I know that? The most interesting and least likely possibility is, I knew it by instinct.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al. So if you need me, I’ll just be over here thinking about doves and flamingos, parrots and falcons, hummingbird brains and our own.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). But it is all for science, I hear them say.

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