10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!)

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 188

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. ’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. 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. Read Carl Hiaasen.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. I believe in science. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they ‘need’ to migrate more than, say, mammals? Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 Why migrate?

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Research Humane Compassion New York 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Duncan chose a mammal! I love participating in citizen science! A missing Common Loon? The gall of some people!

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 186