10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. There are some full-page illustrations that are more decorative than educational.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, one of the 145 species of Glass frogs living in the Cental and South American rainforests, I could look through the transparent skin on their undersides and see their internal organs. It is useful as a general introduction as well as for amphibian organization. If you don’t live near a science museum, then read this chapter.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The excellent Indexes to English Bird Names, Scientific Bird Names, and Subjects were organized by Jennifer W. They did breeding bird counts, breeding bird atlases, Christmas Bird Counts, and became active members of the Linnaean Society of New York and other nature organizations. An identification guide for an overlooked bird family?

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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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Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science ," thankfully wasn't called Pepper, the stolen dog that changed American science," so that was an encouraging sign. Pepper was a beloved family pet. I look forward, with a tad of trepidation, to the part about Pepper being a turning point in science.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. Bird communication is much broader than just vocalization, something I tend to forget.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. All that planning, preparation, shopping, organizing, and now it was over.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., Vinther, J.,

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

You may start reading The Atlas of Birds like I did, to find out more about Hornbills or Mousebirds, but you will end up furrowing your brow over massacred Common Quail and championing Important Bird Areas and BirdLife International, the umbrella organization for over 100 bird conservation organizations, including our own National Audubon.(If

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. Who is it for? The penguin fanatics.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. And I, like some dowager countess in a birding vest, am expected to know each one’s family at a glance and greet them by name. Many thanks to Rally organizer Manuel Bryce and to sponsors PromPeru , Inkaterra , LAN , Casa Andina , and Cajamarca Travel.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., it provides a fantastic way to store and organize your lists and spread the good word of rarities. Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count.

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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. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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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. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. How are they different?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Mostly adult males.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. There are, of course, 52 activities, each with its own chapter, organized by season of the year. How many birds do you see?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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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. That is one year for one organization.

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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. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Here’s the petition. The reason?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Finally, the “Using the Book” section explains decisions made in organizing the guide and what to expect from the Species Accounts. Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. SPECIES ACCOUNTS. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. One way to organize these ponderous complexities is to refer to our Tinbergen. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Also, the company “pushes the limits on predictive insights, delivering the highest quality intelligence to help organizations make better risk decisions and improve the health and safety of the entire planet’s cyber ecosystem.” Like this bird family b. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. Like bad jokes and c.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

It omits Audubon’s uneven business history, his bankruptcy, and the fact that Lucy, his wife, eventually had to support the family through teaching. Do you include objects related to ornithology–published taxonomies and proceedings or a conference program from an ornithological organization, and if so, which one?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I come from a large family: five sisters, two brothers and almost everyone has kids. Most of my family lives in Indiana, but thanks to social media we can easily keep in touch. Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feral cat colony organizations. I have mixed feelings about TNR.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

In The Warbler Guide , Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle drew on science to create sonograms, visual depictions of bird song that showed just how a Pine Warbler trill really was different from a Chipping Sparrow trill. Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. Book Organization. I suppose this works with such a small family, but it made my librarian brain ache just a little bit. Topography. Heermann’s Gull is under H) and scientific names listed beginning with last word ( heermanni, Larus ).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

But it is all for science, I hear them say. I bet that if male Greater Painted-snipes have a get-together, they b h a lot about how insensitive the females are, how they leave all the chick-rearing work to them, how they never listen, and how they seem to think mostly with their sex organs). One puzzle solved. I can see their point.

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