10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Here are good, complex questions about why this diversity exists, how it came about, and what is its function when it comes to species and overall avian survival.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2013
In light of spring’s recent arrival, do you ever find yourself wondering how some species are able to withstand freezing, wintery days and yet still thrive in summer’s heat? This kind of detailed genetic and developmental work has traditionally relied on model species in the lab (aka chickens). Thanks for your support! Maria’s Project.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2017
He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. If I’m not mistaken, it took more than twenty years for Ridgely’s Guide to the Birds of Panama to come out in a Spanish edition. Good question and kind of hard to swallow.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Ridgway himself had 23 species, 10 subspecies, and two genera of birds named for him, including Ridgway’s Hawk.) It was the adventure of a lifetime, made even more exciting by a travel route that went through Panama and Mexico, where Ridgway was exposed to Neotropical birds, a passion that informed his later work.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2019
Whatever it was, Corey was found at his keyboard 2 hours later, covered in blood and snot and sporting a cut lip, having announced that he and Mike would rescue the failing list by taking personal responsibility for adding 300 species. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Surf Scoter – Melanitta perspicillata.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Last night I saw my second plover species of the year, a Common Ringed Plover. Smith is the Staff Scientist Emeritus with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Centre in Panama. The first I saw was its doppelganger, the Semipalmated Plover. Somewhere in the middle, there was supposedly a small zone of hybridization. Dr. Neal G.
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