10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Despite considerable speculation, the evolutionary origins of this species’ remarkable tool behaviour remain largely unknown, not least because no naturally tool-using congeners have yet been identified that would enable informative comparisons. Here we show that another tropical corvid, the ‘Alal? ( Although the ‘Alal?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
The plight of these birds inspired her, along with a handful of other concerned individuals, to do everything they could to save them, and by April of 1971 International Bird Rescue Research Center (now known as International Bird Rescue) was incorporated as a non-profit organization.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The book is graphically designed so that each wildlife section has a different colored border on top of the text page; species accounts are made very readable by the typography, which utilizes size, color and font to draw the eye to the required information quickly and by the use of color-shaded information boxes.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2011
Given new technology and information availability and new species splits, someone with lots of money, good planning, and a lot of luck should be able to at least get close to Sandy’s record within the next 10 years or so, even without Attu. Kudos to him for all the research he did to make people more aware of birding.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?
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