10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr.,
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? How it raised its chicks? Researchers can and do provide valuable information.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research.
Animal Person
APRIL 6, 2010
While other people might trade barbs or even turn to fisticuffs, I'd dig deep for the most hurtful thing I could say, in the fewest words, and deliver it without even raising my voice. The husband and I took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) a couple of months ago and received the most unremarkable results.
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. I want to read about owls, not people.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly. Why migrate?
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