10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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New York Mammals Science Birds 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species. Even more importantly, right now you can become a member of International Bird Rescue and double any donation you make! So as Arnold would say, “Do it!

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue Birds 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I read Chris’s story and saw his video a couple of hours after his sister made it public on social media (I had been Facebook friends with Chris for several years, though I had never met him face-to-face). Because being a birder means you experience life through that framework. It was the same day George Floyd was killed.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 220

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Bibliography is the traditional mix of monographs and journal articles, and I think could have been expanded with links to online depictions of some of the avian behavior described in such detail, such as the Red-capped Manakin video I linked to above. If you haven’t read The Evolution of Beauty , I suggest you dip into it.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?”

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

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.” Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Fortunately, in science, there is often a way to turn a defeat into a victory – in this case via the author just coming up with a new hypothesis, “if black eagles use the frequency or intensity of mobbing as a clue to locate nests, a lack of seasonal difference in mobbing behavior by drongos may be an evolutionary adaptive strategy.”

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

2001), before the videos and web sites, there was Hawks in Flight: the Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors by Pete Dunne, David Sibley and Clay Sutton. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. Published in 1988, Hawks in Flight was unique for its time.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. The thousands of hours of observations that have been added up over the years would not have been possible without the help of the many volunteers and assistants who have offered their time and energy in the cause of science and conservation. Wicked, right?

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254