10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. They are also hunted.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2012
There is a painfully bad song called “Drunk Bird Watching” on You Tube but the only “bird” seems to be someone saying “hello” like a caged parrot. … This post was originally published on 16 March 2010, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives !
10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2015
He meant well, but his research told him to feed them Exact parrot formula – which is NOT a diet for ravens. We released live mice into the flight so they could learn to catch and kill live prey. The caller had three baby ravens from a nest he was ordered to remove and destroy at work.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2014
It does not have the scientific references or research knowledge offered by some other bird handbooks, and it doesn’t pretend to be that type of book. It is encyclopedic in scope and comprehensive in its detailing of information required for up-to-date, accurate bird identification in North America.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Her teacher is assumed to have been a very young Edgar Lear, who learned the art because he wanted to produce his own book on parrots and who also did illustrations for John Gould. Elizabeth’s watercolor of the Australian Mulga Parrot, for example, was used as the basis for H.C. Issues of authorship are also explored.
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