Animal Person
MARCH 18, 2009
And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment. As humans tend to do, early ones looked around them and saw everything and everyone as resources for their use. Perhaps if we never used nonhumans and instead relied on our own ingenuity we would have created modes of transportation better than those we have today.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The hotspot chapters close with “How To Get There” by car, public transportation, and bicycle, and “Amenities/Fees”–hours, bathrooms, picnic tables, required passes, fees. I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.
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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.). This includes bird-watching experiences. Some aspects of birding can be calculated and studied economists.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.
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. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
(And even though transportation is so easy and inexpensive, prepare to walk a lot. The BirdForum thread for China (including Hong Kong & Macau) is a phenomenal resource, as are blogs written by HK birders like John Holmes. Do your research. As ever, the internet is your friend!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2023
So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. Efficient use of the limited resource parrotbill nests, I guess. Hemoglobin is a key molecule in transporting oxygen from the lungs to the individual cells requiring it for their metabolism.
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