10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.
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. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. We have hunters among our core supporters who believe strongly in this idea of a new Wildlife Conservation Stamp, and they say they would purchase both stamps!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. I found this use of ‘regular people’s’ stories initially disjointing; it threw my librarian concept of a reference book out of whack.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. I think this is one of the reasons I enjoy reading his books. Or spend enough money. We’ve all read Jurassic Park.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It One way to organize these ponderous complexities is to refer to our Tinbergen. 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J.,
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject. There is a lot of science here to explain. Huxley, an evolutionary biologist, that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but it was still a rocky ride. No collarbones!
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