10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

These researchers preferred this property for their research due to its close proximity to the Arenal Volcano and resplendent natural environment. When the researchers returned home during their time off, they would tell their friends and family about the magic of this place, and year after year more and more people began arriving.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. ” Common Tailorbirds can be very productive, with up to four broods per year ( source ). Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me.

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MAY 27, 2021

Listen for and upload bird sounds to a central database for researchers and conservationists. Miracle devices don’t exactly grow on trees, whereas crowdfunding can be a terrific way to bring exciting consumer products to market. Help identify the birds and animals in your yard with sound detection and analysis.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I often start with a question that piques my interest (frequently triggered by the news, social media, or other reading) and then I do some research. The same thing happened with conservation banks and Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Bird researchers are good people! The answer sometimes result in a post.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Daniel Engber, senior editor at Slate , has posted the first of a five-part series about animals used for research. A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken. Pepper was a beloved family pet.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

Today there’s a lot of product placement by binocular manufacturers with so-called celebrity birdwatchers. The company is now called Swift Sport Optics, still sells a binocular called Audubon, but no longer markets its products in the UK). I’ve no idea what binoculars the current CEO of the RSPB, Rebecca Speight, uses.

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Austria Factory Branding Germany 209

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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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 15, 2023

Preparing animals for film production: Methods and procedures for preparing animals for film production ​ B. Summary and Conclusions: Provide a summary of research and analysis, draw conclusions regarding the treatment of animals during filming, and evaluate existing practices and laws. ​ III. ​ B.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Astonished by this unexpected response, I asked for elaboration. Or how gracefully it flew?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This visual marking of who’s in charge (and who’s not) helps reduce aggressive actions within the flock during winter, so the sparrows’ energy can be used more productively for finding food and watching out for predators. Author Roger F.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

New research on bluebirds helps address this question. The researchers demonstrate that maternal effects can determine the competitive attributes of the birds. The mechanism that allows for this seems to be changes in the production of androgens in the females producing the competitive males. Science 347(6224):875-877.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. Her product could have a large impact on pet cat-caused bird mortality rates. The conservation implications are clear,” writes researcher Dr. Susan Willson. “If Then keep your cats inside.

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Critter News

APRIL 6, 2009

If you've ever wondered why I have a clinical view of the meat industry, it's because I worked for three years in the accounting department of a very large shrimp importer that also sold finfish, shellfish and value-added products (ie. frozen seafoods with sauces, etc.) Factory farming does not only happen on land. It happens on the sea too.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Meat Industry Research 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. They do use quality hairstyle products, these birds.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

There’s been some interesting bird research lately, having to do with the origin of birds ( new analysis of new and old fossils ) and the overarching taxonomy ( using DNA analysis ) but I’ve not had a chance to absorb this weighty new knowledge so I’ll probably write about it next month.

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Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Changing production conditions are bound to affect the bottom the line. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2011

On our lowland birdwatching trip we visited Rio Canande Reserve , Botrosa Road and then we also visited the nearby reserve of Mache Chindul; specifically we went to Bilsa Research Station of Jatunsacha Fundation. Although we did not hear or see this bird we saw many other great birds that live in this marvelous reserve.

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Mules Research Parrots Farming 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s a clunky system that only works IF you know the full name of the bird you are researching. The Bibliography is a useful listing of original Gould publications (by both Elizabeth and John) and secondary publications, though they don’t include material by Melissa Ashley, an Australian writer and researcher, Alexandra K.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2017

FRIM (Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia) is open to the public who come to bathe in waterfalls, cycle, walk, picnic and attend educational events, but most of this takes part in a small section close to the entrance. Go now while the chance is still available. The majority of the forest is off-limits to the casual wanderer/birdwatcher.

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Critter News

MAY 17, 2010

Aside from their support of animal research, I have enountered them in my line of work and find them corporate, condescending, and self-righteous. for cancer research. Chickens that are used for KFC products are horribly treated. The more fattening food you eat, the more money goes to cancer research. komen charities.

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Animal Welfare Animal Research Fast Food Farm Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2020

Today, whisky production at Glengoyne is entirely legal, open and aboveboard. Since 2016, the Glengoyne Distillery has been a corporate supporter of research and conservation efforts by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to study and counter the decline of the “Greenland” Greater White-fronted Goose in the face of threats like climate change.

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Geese Ireland Branding 2016 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Birders who submit their checklists to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird likely know that their data may be used to conduct scientific research on subjects such as migration, changes in range, or assessment of populations. I emailed the authors and asked about their research and their use of eBird data.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

But it did intrigue me and I rooted around for every source I could find, the product of which you can see in the link above. ” I can’t just put this into Wikipedia – it’s original research. Wikipedia doesn’t allow that lest it be overrun with all manner of research proving feminism causes cancer.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Drug and chemical companies say they endorse a Europe-wide initiative intended to eventually end the use of animals in research and safety testing. A report published by a panel of experts from industry, academic institutions and regulatory bodies supports an initiative aimed at finding alternatives to animal research.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

In other words, we can’t guarantee that we have included absolutely the “best” of every one of the categories of products we review; some things may have slipped through the cracks. . * We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for.

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Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Prum has had a long, productive, award-studded ornithological career, a chaired professor of ornithology at Yale and recipient of a prized MacArthur fellowship. I would have been very happy simply reading about these birds and the research projects that uncovered their unique behavior, biology, and evolutionary history.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers? In consumer products, sometimes small sizes are only on offer to make the customer feel better about going for something bigger.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

144), though she admires Miller’s writerly productivity and naturalist’s patience. Miller wrote of birds as beings just like us, hence the title of the essay, “Little Brother Henslow,” and Rogers finds the idea of anthropomorphizing birds distasteful (“I see birds because I want to see birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Songbirds first listen to and memorize the sound of adult songs and then undergo a period of vocal practice–in essence, babbling–to master the production of song.”. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The plight of these birds inspired her, along with a handful of other concerned individuals, to do everything they could to save them, and by April of 1971 International Bird Rescue Research Center (now known as International Bird Rescue) was incorporated as a non-profit organization.

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Bird Rescue Rescue San Francisco Birds 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

So, browse through the whole section of the bird family you’re researching to make sure you haven’t missed anything. (To The photographs come from 150 photographers and over 115, most appearing to be birders or researchers, are credited with donating the photos. Poulin, R. Millsap, and M. Martell (2020).

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 265

Critter News

APRIL 14, 2009

I really enjoyed this post by The (Nearly) Perfect Vegetarian about her research into the safety of the beauty products she uses. So, despite all the animal testing that goes into cosmetics, many of them are still potentially harmful to a human being. So all that wasted animal life for nothing?

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products. This could be read as anything from a lab conducting medical research on monkeys to a gas station that sells beef jerky.

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