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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

10,000 Birds

Taking up the pertinent question of how the newest form of recreational aviation technology affects avians is Liz Greene, who hails from the beautiful city of trees, Boise, Idaho. In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds.

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

10,000 Birds

Ken Behrens is a tour guide for Tropical Birding, originally from Idaho, but now lives in Madagascar. Beside the mouth-watering African destination, what attracted my attention to the Wild Rwanda eco-travel guidebook was the trio of authors, all of them famous bird guides (and I do not use that word lightly).

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

10,000 Birds

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. This makes no sense at all for a group that purports to be the national birding organization for the United States.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Neal Barnard, Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life , p. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much.

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