10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

First up is a paper appearing in the new issue of the journal Science. Not to be outdone, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report linking phytoplankton, krill, Southern Ocean seabirds, and–believe it or not–climate change. It’s a headline-writer’s dream!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.*

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APRIL 3, 2018

Howell and Sullivan have taken apart the identification process and turned it around, placing macro aspects first in importance (location, habitat, season), followed by situational factors (lighting, distance), behavior of the bird (what it is doing and how it sounds), and, finally, what the bird looks like (structure, plumage, variation).

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Undeterred, they summarize their results with an upbeat call for more research: “Despite our inability to detect patterns of vigilance for other flock members, we emphasize the importance of studies to elucidate such a process.” ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. “Do you think I’m Sexy?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But not everyone sees things through such an avian-positive lens, and hence science often has to make the case for birds’ intrinsic worth. Of course, if you’re reading this, then birds clearly matter to you, for any one of a number of reasons. The latest such argument focuses on birds’ value to the well-being of rainforests.

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Birding is discussed as a process that involves finding birds, viewing and hearing birds, taking notes and sketching birds, thinking about habitat and migration, and then, identifying birds. It is process that can be as simple or as complex as you wish, and I think this is where Birding for the Curious is unique.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Their release process began with inspecting and banding the birds. If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species. The pelicans heads are covered to help keep them calm while working on them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Rocky & Bella is demonstrating its commitment to quality ingredients and manufacturing processes with its new, natural pet supplement, Spark,” Howard said. “It’s Jordan said that most pet foods are highly processed and lack vital nutrients pets need to thrive. Learn more about Spark at [link] and request a free sample.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

From a billionaire with an interest in science and a desire to clone his lover’s dog Missy, to the police dog from Nova Scotia who found the last survivor victim of the attacks on 9/11, the book is full of characters both human and animal. What about the health of clones, and what about all the animals needed in the process?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” More recently, Kelly J.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

Inquiring Minds: Improving Elementary Science – Linda Lippe’s presentation at our 2015 Deming in Education Conference. Process Thinking at Patagonia , excerpt from Louie Paynter’s presentation at our 2012 annual conference: Applying Deming as a Business Strategy. How Did We Do on the Test?

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JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Anyway, the most resent version is from Science, and here is the abstract: The evolution of the ratite birds has been widely attributed to vicariant speciation, driven by the Cretaceous breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. It turns out this is partly wrong.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. It is part of a publishing trend to make scientific information easily available, effortless to read and process, primarily through the use of stunning visual material to engage our eyes and spike our interest.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Asides that in science fiction might be called info-dumps nevertheless abound with interesting facts about a huge variety of bird species, as well as some loving descriptions of both birds and landscapes. Author Roger Real Druin understands and embraces the mind of the nature geek.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened. Telomeres are repetitive sequences of genetic material sitting at the ends of genes.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

But, until recently this has not been confirmed by science. The process of jumping out of the lake if you are that big has to have a better return, I was think. The Tigerfish eating bird thing does not have the hallmarks of a fantastic thing. In fact, Tigerfishing is sometimes done with a dry fly, in Botswana.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2012

The modern birder has to be a photographer , versed in the ways of f-stops, ISO, light-metering; a thorough grasp of post-processing techniques and a sound knowledge of the baffling ways of the near cult-religion of Adobe Photoshop.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

At the close of the film, with our heroes free men and moving on with their lives, the geese are on the ground, real birds, but in the process of taking off for a great migration to the tune of a stirring Eddie Vedder song. This, to me, is the perfect meeting of what C.

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APRIL 5, 2012

But, think about it: how much has been written about the process of birding, the skills required to find birds and to learn about birds in the field? He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be.

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APRIL 11, 2013

We don’t really know how pigments and structural colors are laid down into growing feathers, nor do we know how birds regulate these processes to create patterns on feathers, and create different colored patches across the body. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science' Thanks for your support!

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MAY 19, 2015

Along with this ontogenetic reconstruction, the researchers also identified two genetic pathways that are associated with this developmental process. So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work. The students seem rarely impressed or interested, but I enjoy telling them anyway.)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! John and co-researcher Dr. Alliston Reid later published their findings in the journal Behavioural Processes, and you may have even heard of Chaser thanks to some media coverage too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

The AOU North American committee could go through its own review process as early as next year, Clements would follow in short order if that passed, and the IOC list would almost certainly make similar changes somewhere along the way.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

But in the mid-eighteenth century, the science of horticultural hybridization produced successful crosses of Vitis vinifera with native American grapes, resulting in hardier cultivars resistant to New World diseases but with more desirable qualities for winemaking.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

One is that the circumstances for a trait to emerge do not automatically cause it to happen, and by chance Penguins never underwent this particular Darwinian process until much later in their history. Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers Science, 330 (6006), 954-957 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

The process of analysis was complex, but the result is fairly simple. On both continents, interspecific and spatial variation in population abundance trends are well predicted by climate suitability trends. Stephens, Philip, et al. Consistent response of bird populations to climate change on two continents. 352:6281(84-87).

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JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. However, they usually explain the process in the introduction and describe how the text has been updated.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology and Chief Curator of Manuscripts at The Huntington Library in California.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

It’s the process of using knowledge of natural history, habitat, distribution, behavior, and, yes, taxonomy, combined with specifics of adult and juvenile plumage and vocalization to identify a bird, often to the subspecies. The process is called “Wide-angle birding: Be the bird, see the bird.”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),

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JANUARY 7, 2020

But, I think it’s also time to start exploring new frontiers, new types of bird books, titles that allow us to leverage our citizen science data, explore the implications of local bird distribution and status changes in conjunction with related habitat and even political and legal change, and strategize for change.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Even the lyrics of the song echo the art and science of hawk watching, “Link by link, making the connections…”) Chapters are strategically illustrated with David Sibley’s drawings. The black-and-white drawings are an essential part of this identification process, and work here where they might not work in a standard field guide.

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