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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s also about personal journeys, where knowledge comes from and how it is shared, investigating the past through the lens of history and the lens of informed imagination, learning how to negotiate the grays of our ornithological heritage, and the magic of discovery. I really enjoyed these sections.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Solid Air is divided into 12 chapters, presented as if Klem was on an auditorium podium giving a logical argument on why people need to take window strikes seriously. His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

10,000 Birds

Egyptian Vultures raised is isolation used rocks to crack eggs presented to them. According to these researchers, only the exceptionally intelligent herons acquire the skill of bait fishing. In general, fish will swim to investigate anything that falls on the water hoping the object might be prey. The behavior was inherent.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Kirtland’s Warbler is divided into three sections: The Past, The Present, The Future. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers. photo by Lynn C. Jackson, 2012. Most of the chapters are in the first two sections; the future is a brief, open question.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. Research to determine the ability to understand the HCA vs. UCA distinction has shown this to be rare as well. Then, they had one of two different experimental setups presented to the crows. Here’s the idea.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

10,000 Birds

Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill.

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On "Wild Justice"

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Bekoff and Pierce (a philosopher) are the perfect combination to write this book because whenever you're presenting the similarities of nonhuman animals to human animals, a philosophical conundrum is created for humans, who like to think that we are worlds different, and above nonhumans. There are no judgments.

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