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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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). The penguin fanatics.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 144

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

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.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 263

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. Apparently, species like Sand Martins and Emperor Penguins develop distinct parent-child vocalizations. How do they know?

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds. The relationships among these families have been pretty well sorted out, and the entire clade belongs in a clade of landbirds ( passerines, parrots, diurnal raptors, mousebirds, owls , etc.)

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. 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. Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 11 Jun 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100