10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect. And it’s not just for the free rations of birdseed.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change. The knot’s breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic are experiencing pronounced effects from climate change. Birds in Delaware Bay.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. My first view of them was at a distance.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
She does, and her narrative serves as a role model for how to write about birds simply and knowledgeably; informing birds’ family stories with scientific facts and research findings. Peregrine Falcon nests. American Crows live in extended families, with sons and daughters from previous years helping to raise the current brood.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
It can take a bit of research to figure these notes out, especially when they are citing taxonomic differences (Riparian [Blackish] Antbird, for example, is treated differently in three of the four taxonomic systems), but it is tremendously helpful just to know that there is an issue to be researched.
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