10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. Apologies in advance for the ridiculous amount of yawns that reading this post will engender. Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above, photographed by Corey.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. So, for example, humans are apes. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. Proposed solutions include creating glass with images that reflect ultraviolet light (which many birds can see but humans can’t), or that features dots or stripes barely visible to the human eye.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. When unthreatened but hungry, the drongo will attract other birds to itself by imitating their calls – but this time it utilizes contact calls or mating calls. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

How it is being affected by human intrusions? Science doesn’t work that way! Describing the position that Linda took with regards to the validity of the science as dishonest may have been unfair. Science Schmience. Says the prosecution to this: “Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The consultant also suggested increasing readership by catering to highly specific niche interest groups. It seems the ones I got decent photos of are all juveniles – it generally seems to be easier to get photos of juveniles as they have not quite learned to avoid humans. Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. This exchange was part of a larger group discussion about Collapse by Jared Diamond. I raised the point that science does not solve everything.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Conclusion: Shanghai, with its juxtaposition of urban landscapes and thriving birdlife, is a testament to the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. I waited…and waited…and waited.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Greg is a biological anthropologist and Africanist, who writes and teaches about Evolution, especially of humans.

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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. found that the Neoaves split in two just before the K-Pg boundary, and they named the groups Columbea and Passerea. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2010

The guidelines have been compiled by the Forum of Ethics Review Committees of Sri Lanka and the Ethics Review Committee (ERC) of the Colombo Medical Faculty after several sessions of consultations with a wide and varied group including academics from all universities across the country, government officials and animal welfare groups.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

The Latin species name of the Common Greenshank , nebularia , sounds a bit like a science fiction novel to me – however, it means “misty” and apparently is derived from the birds’ misty, marshy habitat (HBW). Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. I would have liked to see far more examples of moral structures that would not look good or bad to the audience’s eyes but completely orthogonal to human morality.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

It contains numerous citations to the literature, as the process must be based on the best available science. Habitat has been improved and conserved in some areas, though Hawaii’s increasing human population has made that a challenge. Several national parks, national wildlife refuges, and state lands host significant populations.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Next year's Mind and Life Conference is called "Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: A Dialogue Between Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences." But can we really imagine an economic system that delivers prosperity and welfare, or is competition an unavoidable consequence of the human race?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So assuming that these results are transferable to humans, parents should feed their offspring regularly (first finding) but restrict themselves to one child (second finding). But then, maybe not – it seems to be the nature of science that the more you know, the more you want to know.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Nah, sadly, probably not.

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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

In humans, adults (probably mainly mothers) do this thing called “motherese” which is talking in a way one would normally not talk to another adult, to a baby. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J. Nilsson, A. Nord, and S.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

There is a bit of science news. One group is trying to make a better list of which species of birds to pretend to be doing something about vis-a-vis imminent extinction using a unique approach: Identifying the most genetically unique species. But there were a gazillion of them.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. ” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!”

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2010

The purpose of her trip was to study the behavior of the resident chimpanzees in order to better understand humans. What she learned then added to our understanding of what means to be human. It was through her research that she learned how chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat and engage in war-like activity.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. The point of my series was to introduce some of the difficult questions that don't often get asked within science, precisely because of what Alina has so aptly described as the "climate of fear" that pervades the lab.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

Environmental groups are opposed, because it is perceived as a wedge to try and open up the forests to more economic exploitation, and there are concerns about the damage such selective timber recovery might cause. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. And not everyone is happy about this.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. This year, it would be us ten graduate students, plus Professor Pimm, Sonny Bass, a Biologist Emeritus at the National Park Service, and a small group of wonderful volunteers who would also be banding and weighing this year’s group of Sooty Terns.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

Early displays also involve small groups of young albatrosses instead of just pairs, and birds learn the “language” of their dance faster if they Groups of young albies will practice together before pairing off to perfect their dance. It is a surprisingly difficult question for science to address, but it can say this.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

So, I belong to this book group of 5 to 7 women. I've been with the group for a while and it's not bad. There is one member of this group who works for a pharmaceutical company. She is the "science" one and likes to call herself an "independent" on the political landscape. Which surprised me. It didn't affect you AT ALL?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

. … … We used long-term monitoring of the abundance of breeding birds across Europe and the United States to produce, for both regions, composite population indices for two groups of species: those for which climate suitability has been either improving or declining since 1980. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87).

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." what if those were human babies? You may have seen "Dog," posted by Stephanie. If not, here it is. See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). (See And the day-old calves.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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