Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. It hasn't been your week has it, Daniel? We will attack your private life wherever possible. If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. And here is a small group the broke away and swam out to deeper water. Here is a small group shot of those Purple Martins.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

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. Throughout his professional career, Chris has maintained a commitment to bridging his research interests with grassroots conservation.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale. Erik overheard a few waiters joke about the birders “…they keep going left, then right, left, then right.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

The bulk of the book is devoted to heavily illustrated accounts of 35 groups of similar looking birds, offering instructions on how to differentiate species by size, structural features, behavior, plumage pattern and general coloration, habitat use, and vocalization. ’) and the how (as in ‘how to describe a structural feature?’)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2015

The lodge is perched right at the edge of a stunning cliff-face. They are listed by the IUCN as near-threatened and their scarcity and localized distribution is indicated by the fact that they were only discovered by science in 1935. The birds live in groups of up to sixteen individuals and, when foraging, they are always on the move.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

(Especially happily that the meeting was held at the Palmer House Hilton, right near my office, so that I was able to spend my morning volunteering and still put in a full day at work.). Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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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. Our Beat Writers and their schedule can be found right here but don’t go clicking through just yet – there is exciting news to share!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Critter News

AUGUST 26, 2009

Animal rights activists from a group called The Militant Forces Against Huntingdon Life Sciences went to a cemetery and dug up an urn belonging to the family of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. The Militant Forces Against Huntingdon Life Sciences". This happened at the end of July.

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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. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 177

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. This is wonderful news right? In terms of losing Refuge support from hunters, our intent is not to divide the two groups. Rather, it’s an effort to bridge the chasm between two groups that have been, arguably, separated by this funding disparity.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Steve Feldman of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums questioned the credibility of the Science report because it used data from 1960 when zoo husbandry practices were considered sub-standard. And it didn't include data on poaching, a major threat to wild elephant populations.

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Elephants Zoos Euthanasia Georgia 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

I started to learn how to tell waders (and gulls) apart only when I locally ran out of other hard bird groups to tackle. Quarter of a century later, I jumped at an opportunity to study environmental sciences, and guess what awaited me there? And it wasn’t so long ago. When there was hardly much else left, I accepted the shorebirds.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 153

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Right now, it is in the midst of an ambitious recruiting drive , to expand its membership from about 12,000 to 16,000. The survey questions do not appear detailed enough to properly categorize members of the birding community.). * * * *.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! Noticing right away that Chaser was a bright dog, John set out to determine how best to tap into her intellect. Sometimes, they might even know too much!

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Dogs Psychology South Carolina Research 100

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. Right away, we have a definition problem — those who hold to any kind of mind-body dualism are unlikely to be swayed by the ideas in this book.

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Morals Animal Humane Research 109

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books.

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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. Males that do not have attached females also form bachelor groups that usually associate around the periphery of the bands or herds.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Email lists, blogs, websites, forums, Facebook groups, and of course eBird (see below) has completely revolutionized the way birders get their business handled. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., 2) The internet has changed everything.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

An excellent synopsis of the situation is right here at 10,000 Birds. ” So if any of you birders have a science background and are looking for something to do, please move to eastern California and sort this out for us. 2 of which make their home in the United States. This coastal jay was photographed at Ano Nuevo State Park, CA.

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The poem is on the left side of each two-page spread and a factual paragraph about the nesting process–usually brief, but sometimes fairly detailed–is located on the right side. Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. Ruby’s Birds.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. Be cautious in repeating claims you find on the Web, especially those made by members of chat groups. For sleuthing on animal experimentation, you will want to visit a library with good science holdings.

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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. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Left to right: Rich Hoyer, Jake Mohlmann, Manuel Bryce, Gustavo Bautista, Paul French, Steve Howell. This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said. There’s this World Birding Rally that’s going to blast across 1,500 kilometers of northern Peru.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

And you are absolutely spot-on right in having finally worked out what this post will be about (lesson 2) … Treecreeper Identification The Treecreepers are creepy creatures outside North America. Easy, right? Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s right – birds eating clay. By twos and fours they arrive and scatter in small groups among the canopy to their favorite perches in iron, cecropia and aguaje palm trees. Wicked, right? Each bird, regardless of species, seems perfectly content to wait for the other to make the first move toward the colpa. Hat-tip to Stella.

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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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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. “National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America” by Jon L.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong). But that is science in hierarchical institutions).

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Litter China Species Abandon 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. Three papers coming out of the study are in peer review, and the research continues, with citizen science opportunities and additional data partnerships anticipated in the near future. The time to act is now. What a wrong!

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