10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2024
Kaufman says he worked on this book for five years and it shows in the depth of research, scope of topic, and the elegance of his writing. I saw an American Flamingo in East Hampton, New York two days ago, several miles from where I used to summer with my daughter, 100 miles where John James and Lucy Audubon spent their last days.
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.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
Moreover, says Higgins, there are “astounding similarities between the inner ears of owls and of humans,” so strong, according to one neurobiologist, “they suggest that hearing underwent an independent but parallel evolution in birds and mammals.”. Atria Books, New York, $28 (U.S.); $37 (Canada).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2015
Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. Click here to go directly to the study.).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
I was doing my thesis research at the time, and it even affected what I was doing, as the wild world was being reconceptualized in terms of tannins and alkaloids, seed edators and dispersers, and so on. The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. Insects ruled.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well. When a car comes along they fly away.
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