10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. The text is divided into three parts, informational stories or ‘essays’ as Sibley calls them. How are they different?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

There are currently 10 species of Treecreepers that form the family Certhiidae, nine in the genus Certhia and an additional oddball in another genus, Salpornis. David Sibley (yeah, the one ) recently raised the question visiting birders (particularly from Germany, not so much from the UK – I am told!) I’ll explain.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring. Science (New York, N.Y.), doi:10.1126/science.1240039. Somveille, M., Heinsohn, R.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. They can use this form of sensory input to navigate, integrating this information with other data to determine and adjust migration routes as adults. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. One interesting bit of information on these munias is that birds that inhabit areas with more mixed flocks sing simpler songs ( source ). Like this bird family b. Like bad jokes and c.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Detailed information is given for physical description and coloration, size and weight, voice (including contact and courtship calls, juvenile whistles, and various grunts), population and distribution, breeding (habitat, social aspects, courtship, nest, laying, incubation, chick rearing, fledging), food, and principal threats.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. Here is my reasoning: One sighting could indicate a vagrant bird, which is very, very cool, but not really significant for science. But they kind of are, down here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

Actually, as I just found out, this is not really new information. 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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