Critter News
APRIL 11, 2010
To see an issue of such moral debate minimized to simply economic activity is just not right. Tags: animal research Obama University of North Carolina federal stimulus. But it disappoints and frustrates me to see it consistently used for purposes that I passionately oppose.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2016
From a recent article in Nature , “This bird acts like it has four sexes,” says Christopher Balakrishnan, an evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, who worked with Tuttle and Gonser. One individual can only mate with one-quarter of the population.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2018
The return home included a total of 5 ½ hours of flight delays, one missed flight, and we subsequently missed the entire town of Charlotte, North Carolina. When I was doing some very quick, last minute research on the area, a photo of the beautiful Pied-imperial Pigeon popped up on one of the eBird.org pages.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates). There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America. Moths are more than bird food. This is the first thing we learn in the Introduction of each guide. Let that sink in.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2015
Bird species that require further research. For the birder, this means that no matter how many Clapper Rails you have seen in the salt marshes of New Jersey, North Carolina, or Texas, that Clapper Rail that lurks in the Black Mangroves at Chomes, Costa Rica is going to be a different species. from Mexico south to Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched. In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.
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