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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’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. Follow him on Twitter — he’s regularly tweeting great highlights from the research project. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)
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. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. I didn’t.). These are all informative and current.
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 look forward to more research being done in this field.
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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