10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Could scientists use weather radar data to track the spread of avian influenza, and thereby help poultry growers protect their flocks? contemplating the pretty blue eggs are American Robins are soon to lay is a good coping strategy.). (To see some in action, check out Bella Hummingbird’s site on Explore.org !).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The highly specialized foraging strategy of flamingos makes them vulnerable to the effect of subtle changes in habitat quality. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The status of its preferred wetlands throughout the year dictates movements that often results in a nomadic lifestyle.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

And there is only one certain way to protect the lower parts of the city from floods: let the river spread and flood some other area, before it reaches the city. In the last few years, its members have eBirded 205 bird species within the IBA borders, 136 of them within Beljarica and 108 of those strictly protected under Serbian legislation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following. Just get rid of the mice.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Fortunately, naturalists can still observe this species quite readily at the Linhares Reserve (it harbors the largest wild population by far) in northern Espirito Santo, a 22,000 hectacre preserve that protects a piece of secondary lowland forest. Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2013

To make it easier, we’ve assembled some great tips to help you whip your fire prevention strategy into shape! Having a fire safety strategy has many benefits and may help reduce the chances of fire, injury and home evacuation. Evacuation Strategies. Fireproofing for Pets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2011

In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy. You see, potoos don’t require a nest to protect - or hide - their eggs and young. A nesting potoo simply chooses a suitable knot in the branch, lays its egg, and its body does the protecting and the hiding.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Both pelicans have a very specialized foraging strategy that depends on abundant fish near the surface. Pelicans are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds. Peruvian Pelican in non-breeding plumage. Photo: Albert Michaud (Creative Commons – Flickr).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Here is where the rictal bristles act as a shield protecting the eyes from spiky legs and flapping wings. This is how, many species occupy the same habitat and use seemingly the same foraging strategy. A wide gape and flat bill act as a “butterfly net” the larger the rim, the greater the chances to scoop a flying insect.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

It was during these long evening sessions that I allowed my mind to wander to far-away destinations, making plans and coming up with strategies on how to see them all with a minimum amount of trips.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2013

Mallard s are a good example, a hearty and endurable bird that can survive sub zero temperatures so long as they found ample supplies of food like corn and some open water to roost on and be protected from coyotes and foxes. Migration has the unknown, storms, buildings, wind turbines, glass and a surprise loss of fueling habitat.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

Less than one year ago, Puerto Rico enacted a landmark animal protection law, based in part on a set of model laws drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals. The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

“Gamebirds” to some, cool, cryptic understory birds to the birding people, grouse crouch protected as unfettered winds sway the top of the tall prairie grass. These “grouse” could be too sneaky for such heavy-handed, accidental strategies. Grouse are the chickens we would love to lay eyes on.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The Pied Oystercatchers are actually incredibly predictable when it comes to the dates that they lay eggs, the locations that they choose and the various strategies that each pair use in order to protect their young. They laid a second clutch within a week and they then sat for another 28 days sharing the sitting duties.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. This particular pair of Pied Oystercatchers have a strategy that involves walking their young two kilometres to the reef at Gantheaume Point when they are only a few days old.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

The idea is that by engaging these communities, people would not only take pride and protect these sites, but also will see them as potential sources of revenue as visitors pay small entrance fees and spend money hiring services and purchasing goods from these communities. Photo: Trevor Hardaker. Photo: Peru Birding Rally.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would!

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2009

Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. "For It's not a move based on compassion, but efficiency. They've served their purpose well.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Each pair has a strategy and sometimes it is successful and sometimes it is not. Over the years some pairs of Pied Oystercatchers appear to learn how to protect the eggs and their young much more effectively and are therefore successful where other pairs may fail.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

ALDF was founded in 1979 with the unique mission of protecting the lives and advancing interests of animals through the legal system.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Up north, strategies for a Big Day have to include knowledge of sites for breeding birds, the best places to find migrants, driving times, and the ability to identify by sight or sound, anything that peeps, flies, or pops into view.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Gathering more detailed information about wintering populations, and which roost sites they rely on, will help us protect them and develop more effective conservation strategies.” These gulls are all of conservation concern, and their breeding populations are either Amber- or Red-listed in the UK.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act." If Engber does a good job with anything, it's with pointing out the flaws in the strategies of pro-animal activists and in the outcomes of their campaigns.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So does protecting the extremities, as ducks do with the counter-current heat exchange in their feet and ptarmigans do with their feather-shaggy slippers. Beyond this, many birds who are routinely exposed to great cold have adaptations that help them limit their heat loss.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2016

Because many NWRs were established to protect migratory birds, many CCPs include extensive discussions about bird populations, habitat, and conservation measures. The Executive Summary sets forth a concise overview of the CCP, including goals (enhance aquatic health and habitat, protect and rehabilitate riparian habitats, etc.)

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The book serves as a model of how our environmental success stories can be presented to the non-birding public, the citizens and legislators who are responsible for funding conservation projects and habitat protection. When I first started birding New Jersey, I didn’t really know where the Meadowlands started and stopped.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Gooddie describes his quest in terms of a contest of wills and strategy. There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. They can travel through space-time without leaving a ripple in the continuum in a way that even Stephen Hawking could not begin to explain.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

And, it is a guide based on scholarship as well as field work (author Reeber has monitored the birds of the Lac of Grand-Lieu, France, for the National Society for Nature Protection (SNPN) since 1994). Plate 14 includes close-ups of the head and neck, showing how the white collar varies between subspecies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dawn and Sharon are neighbours, but the males move freely through and between the two areas. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

In songbirds, by contrast, both the male and female can contribute equally to the very important job of incubating and protecting the egg. The most like strategy of investment by bird parents to evolve is probably both parents caring for the offspring, probably taking turns at the nest, and bringing food back to the chick.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . All these forests are in “protected” forest reserves, however at some, logging permits are reportedly being issued for harvesting of these forests. What makes Ghana so special?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups. The nest can be made of weed stems and bark strips, leaf fragments, moss and lined with grass, weeds, moss, or feathers. Harris Hawks are monogamous and polyandrous and the female is the primary nest builder.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders. Donna). ==. Swarovski ordered the BP 30 from German rucksack specialist Deuter, sending them a request for a birding daypack accompanied with the list of the equipment thatshould firmly fit inside. Dragan). ==.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In Common Snipes , apparently, the wing shape is correlated with the migration strategy of individual birds. Poor Britons – Brexit did not protect them from being invaded by birds from the continent. The Green Sandpiper is another bird with a name that makes one wonder about the sanity of early naturalists.

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