Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

From their press release.such BS. The Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) announced today it has launched a one-year national animal research education campaign. Since 2004, public support for humane animal research to advance human and animal health has fallen 10 points.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Press, Feb. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

New research in Current Biology suggests that concentrating efforts on saving the remaining four large populations of the Florida Scrub-Jay isn’t all that’s needed. (Photo above by Louise Hunt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) At just about 5,000 individuals, Florida’s only exclusive endemic is Endangered. ”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2023

Mars Muusse is a Dutch birder specializing in gulls and the founder of a famous gull identification website Gull Research Organization. Princeton University Press (April 5, 2022) Paperback: ? Peter Adriaens is an ecologist who has traveled widely to study and photograph gulls. Philippe J. Dubois, and Frédéric Jiguet Publisher: ?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

New research in The Auk: Ornithological Advances appears to have zeroed in on the culprit. (As in the photo above, courtesy of C. Hansen) The birds in question weren’t anywhere near the mid-continental hybridization zone where they could fraternize with their western red-shafted brethren.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers. Genetic-based research published in The Auk indicates that the four variants of “butternuts” include at least three full species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. I photographed the godwit because of the rings, but when I pressed the shutter on the Black-headed Gull ( above ) I hadn’t even noticed that it was ringed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, I was intrigued when I saw that Comstock Publishing, an arm of Cornell University Press, was publishing Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide by Linda Tuttle-Adams. Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press, October 2022. And one more thing, readers of 10,000 Birds–A Happy, Health, Birdy New Year!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

This is essentially a survey of ornithological marine research told in the voice of one of its most passionate and experienced participants. Mostly, as you can probably tell from the last paragraph, I learned how a marine ornithologist thinks, and how challenging this research can be.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

You’d be hard pressed to find a 19th century scientist more despised than Richard Owen. But as Bill Bryson notes, he did make one great contribution to the world (beyond his anatomical contributions of course), his reconceptualisation of museums from places only of research to places of research and public entertainment and education.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

Moustached Warbler : a skulker that’s not an easy bird to find, so you need good binoculars I got on well with the people at Zeiss, and the following year I went to Vienna to help the company with another press demonstration at Lake Neusiedl.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” of Texas Press, 2004). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. Press, 1995 ^Howell, Steve N.G., Howell and Dale Dyer Princeton University Press, April 2023 Pages:304, Flexibound; Size: 5.25 Howell and Dale Dyer.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). inches ISBN: 9780691167398 Publisher : Princeton University Press (05/01/2018). And that is what recommends Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s worth noting that these numbers are self-reported, so researchers assume that actual death totals are higher. Data from the wind-power companies notes the deaths at least 85 Golden Eagles and Bald Eagles since 1997, with at least 67 of those deaths occurring with in the past five years. Apparently, the U.S.

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2009

The author is the press officer for the Animal Liberation Press Office. Tags: animal experimentation animal research vivisection medical research. I say "yes" and it's time to pursue the alternatives. This is an excellent, excellent opinion piece.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2016

But new research, published in The Auk , suggests that this narrative may not provide the whole story. Conventional wisdom suggests that the vagrants are starving juveniles who weren’t able to compete for limited food resources in their usual territories and headed south to try their luck in generally Snowy-free areas.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 19, 2008

This according to a communique received at the ALF Press office. UC Berkeley vivisector Ralph Freeman and all of the current lab members in Freeman's Visual Neuroscience Lab were sent a trojan horse virus embedded into email.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

From the Clemson press release. But it's not just about the hens.it's about the money. How much suffering can and should they endure without significantly affecting the human pocketbook. Or corporate net income. More is at stake than just the comfort of chickens, though the well-being of 284 million U.S. laying hens is no small matter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Follow-up from the Utah scandal in which shelter animals were being sold for research purposes. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes. For the full story, go to NECN.com.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. Copyright @2019 by Louisiana State University Press. LSU Press, 2019, 272 pp.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2011

It is not an encyclopedia, though it does summarize research, explain basic concepts, and ends with a section on bird statistics. It is a fascinating book that teaches while it entertains, that offers research-informed arguments for bird protection and conservation in the guise of vibrant design. by Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

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Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused. We cannot test on human beings," he told The Associated Press. Tags: animal research animal laboratories malaysia. The plans by India's Vivo BioTech Ltd. God created animals for the benefits of human beings.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Three Hills/Cornell University Press, April 2022. I like the journalistic flavor added by these interviews. The notes also identifies the black-and-white photographs of birds that begin every essay, some of the actual bird talked about in the essay. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure. by Susan Fox Rogers. ISBN-10 ? : ?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

But a black birder is still a rarity, and whether Lanham is finding blank pages in his genealogy or conducting field research with the breath of white suspicion on his neck, he can never compartmentalize himself. 24.00, Milkweed Press. Though not a polemic, this book refuses to be shy about race and its practical implications.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The guides bore the Audubon Society name, were published by Knopf and distributed by Random House, but they were actually conceived and produced by an outfit called Chanticleer Press and they became a publishing sensation. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America. Press, 2000), and over 140 journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings. A good book helps.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2014

A little research revealed that these are old names of birds that have been split into different species. I do hope that Noble Proctor and Cool Springs Press will re-visit this book and update it with 2014 taxonomy, species names, and distribution. Cool Springs Press, March 2014, 224 pages, 8.2 by Noble Proctor.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. From the Epoch Times.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. There is a well-founded preference amongst ornithologists and researchers to focus on the pressing research needs of declining native species rather than devote valuable research hours to increasing introduced species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2013

Besides birding, I have another hobby that I like to indulge when I travel: seeking out books from small regional presses. Nearly every town with a souvenir shop has a book or two about the local ghost stories, true crimes, battlefields, and the like.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. Rutgers University Press/Rivergate Books, 2012.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

My friend Ian had purchased Richard ffrench’s classic A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago just before we left, the third edition, hot off the presses. A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animal research issues. It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. I'm not going into why I do not support animal research. If you oppose it, then I'm preaching to the choir.

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