10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum. Think about it for a minute.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

The teeth, being made of durable enamel (not common in fish) are readily discovered. Send this to the fish lady in New Jersey!” Tigerfish are, like many other African fish, extreme predators. But, until recently this has not been confirmed by science. Go to the Nature link to see a video of the fish eating the bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. Fish & Wildlife Service). In particular, the honeycreepers of Kaua’i are at risk of being wiped out , due to disease-spreading mosquitoes.

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Hawaii Branding Birds Science 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Dedicated to science, conservation, and education, the reserve focuses on the smaller Weeks Bay, which in turn connects to Mobile Bay. Belted Kingfishers looked for fish from atop snags, and Ospreys joined them in the darker recesses of the canopy. I was touring the reserve for two days, and felt pumped to get out on the water.

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Alabama Pelicans Science Research 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Maine, will use “nano-tags” to track migrating birds. Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary. San Francisco aims to study and deter birdstrikes ; participants can earn “bird-friendly resident” honors. Another study, led by the U.S. News Double-crested Cormorant hummingbirds migration window strikes'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We didn’t have any set course; I sat behind the wheel of the center console while Brian used the trolling motor to cast after fish. That my data would be used in a global citizen science event? Blue Jays called near the boat ramp, and a lone, juvenile Brown Pelican paddled lazily in the lapping waves.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to the HBW, they mainly eat fish. Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today, the vast tract of land is protected, managed for science and conservation. At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw.

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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). Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species. Such was the case with the two juvenile Brown Pelicans I was chosen to release back into the wild.

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Pelicans Bird Rescue Rescue Birds 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. Well, high school turns in to college, college turns into a job and the need to make a living, and I never found, or helped out the Snowy Plover.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Kittlitz’s Murrelet at least is named after an actual naturalist, Heinrich von Kittlitz, who bummed around the Pacific on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg. Fish and Wildlife Service. Utterly commonplace. And yet the birds themselves remain mysterious and lovely.

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North America Science Collecting Fish 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Every few years, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1. We think so.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293].

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above. And there is a video here. As there are many interesting species at Sepilok, I can afford more or less skipping a few of them despite writing three posts on the location.

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. The proposal from U.S.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2009

The group was formed to protest the activities of Huntingdon Life Sciences in Franklin Township, N.J. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey.

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Guinea Pigs United Kingdom New Jersey Protest 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Skimmers, of course, use that laterally flattened mandible to cut the water and leave a trail of light–intriguing to small fish at dusk. When the fish rise to investigate, a split-second snap of the bill captures a meal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Melody McKinnon holds 52 certifications revolving around nutrition, biochemistry, general sciences, business, marketing, and writing. She specializes in natural pet care and also produces her own line of natural fish food. . ———————————— Author Bio.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. So, which came first, the underwater flight, the ability to hunt fish, the exceptional ability to live in the cold, or the tuxedo-camouflage? People call them “flightless birds&# but they do in fact fly; They just do it underwater. Salas-Gismondi, R.,

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. It is easy to make the argument that one, extractive (hunting, logging, fishing) is bad and the other (birding, diving, hiking) is good, but to my mind this simplistic black and white view point is completely wrong.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 168

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

Quarter of a century later, I jumped at an opportunity to study environmental sciences, and guess what awaited me there? Technically, it is a part of the Baranda fish farm, but being a complex of nowadays brackish oxbow lakes, they are not used for carp production and the access is not restricted. But I made it, nevertheless.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing. The book is structured in a way that made much more sense after I read it than as I was reading it. ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Audubon Rebrand Don’t Be a Slob Birder First I and the Bird of 2010 is Coming… Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline “Science Versus Snake Oil&# About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. Letaba is a largish rest camp in the North central part of the park. It is near a river, attracting some birds that like to eat wet food.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Similar things happen to both fish and birds.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

Fish & Wildlife Service, where she wrote and became chief editor of all publications. Her compositions were remarkable for a blend of science with the craftsmanship of an accomplished writer and tended to reveal little-known facts, such as in her story of the chimney swift.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. From there, I do a point count every half-mile for the next 9.5,

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North Carolina Transported Morals Science 156

Animal Person

AUGUST 26, 2009

Instead, our LGUs teach the false ancient beliefs that maintain meat -- including dairy, fish, eggs, and feed crops -- as an institution. . Our most insidious institution -- as my talk in Miami in 10 days (August 29th) will explain! I look forward to meeting RPA's Florida members who are able to attend!

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Meat Responsible Policies Miami Meat Industry 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

I wasn’t there to birdwatch, however, I was volunteering with Wildlife ACT, a conservation organisation that provides science monitoring to the parks of Zululand in South Africa (and increasingly, beyond). Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest. The focus of the monitoring at Tembe was twofold.

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South Africa Elephants Africa Lions 146

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

The Pigeon Guillemot is bringing a small fish for breakfast back to the nest. Rebecca did a beautiful job, not only discussing the birds on the area, but blending in some environmental science, and the issues that can affect the local bird species. Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area.

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Oregon Bald Eagle Owls Groups 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. In more recent history, two meteorological stations have been built on the island with the older dating back to 1948.

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