10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran. “Wait! ” you’re probably saying.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2021
He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2014
Second, and this is recent, new research indicates that Birds that migrate at night enter a state of sleepless mania and gorge on foods by day, behaviors mediated by their biological clocks. Imagine yourself on board a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York City, an eight-hour journey that begins at bedtime and ends at breakfast.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
But we won’t let science get in the way of Fremont’s claim – which is actually one of the better ones from the many places on earth that claim this distinction. Apparently, the rationale behind this Seattle-centric model of the universe is the conviction that it must be true since no one can prove that it’s not.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.
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