10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2020
And, whether I like it or not, the much-reviled starling turned out to be one of the very first species for which I could confirm breeding in this citizen-science endeavor — and for that, I had to give them a bit more attention than usual. A starling with nesting material at Normanskill Farm in Albany, New York, in May.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2015
Without an exception, rookeries were within suburbs, villages or large farms (in such cases – next to buildings), away from the riverine forests bordering the area, tree lines or smaller groves in the open. nests per 1 km2. The smallest rookery in Pancevacki Rit had a mere 4 nests, the largest 102 – on average, 31.5 nests per colony.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). . … Traill did this enough times that Shirley began to hide the scale.’
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2012
This title basically means I get paid to watch birds (like the above Indigo Bunting I digiscoped with my iPhone and Swarovsksi Scope) before wind farms, solar panels and pipelines go under construction (or sometimes I get to id bird parts found post construction). You may work in biology, but it could be in any field.
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2011
The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. Now, I think they're wonderful and we sponsor Camilla the Chicken through Farm Sanctuary's animal sponsorship program. Here's an article from the Telegraph regarding chickens feeling empathy.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.
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