10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Some Thai researchers looked at the breeding ecology of the Buff-breasted Babbler and published their findings in the somewhat unsuitable-sounding journal “Agriculture and Natural Resources”.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When one Chinese researcher was very bored, he had a bright idea: Why not publish a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Rhinoceros Hornbill ? This behavior is likely to reduce resource competition by exploiting fruit that is too large for smaller frugivores. The Wreathed Hornbill is also listed as Vulnerable.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 138

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. Still, the poor sparrows … Advice to them: Avoid landfills and researchers. I am giving them the typical consultant answer: It depends.

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Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers. But one consequence that Mr.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Even more telling, the support the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission was expecting from its hunting community simply never materialized. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

With years of banding they have a large cohort of known age birds which they have been able to follow at every stage of their lives, a priceless resource for a scientist interested in in the life-history of a marine bird. The Cassin’s Auklets do something else that is very interesting. So why do it?

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. Additional resources 53rd supplement (PDF) Proposals and votes David Sibley’s take Rick Wright’s take Paul Hess’s take a.

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Falcons Parrots California Breeding 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Are they adaptable and remarkably enduring and resourceful? Three papers coming out of the study are in peer review, and the research continues, with citizen science opportunities and additional data partnerships anticipated in the near future. But do they balance on a knife’s edge?

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 183

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

One paper – describing research conveniently done at the university campus of Chittagong University, presumably close to the canteen – looks at resource partitioning between this bee-eater and another one, the chestnut-headed bee-eater. Still, it was worth it for seeing several Asian Green Bee-eaters alone.

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Vietnam Zebras Birds Sparrows 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 212

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. The Identification section points out the differences: the skimmers are larger and their thoraxes are purple. I am going with the Red-tailed Pennant identification for now.

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 247

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. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). The timber industry-led assault on this resource is building towards ecological catastrophe.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

Researching this single hybrid revealed that teals are as liberal with their love as mallards! Jörn Lehmhus has studied hybrid ducks more extensively than anyone I know; his Flickr set on hybrids may be the most extensive resource on the topic online anywhere! Are you willing to hazard a guess about its lineage? What about the rest?

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Ducks North America Denmark America 247

Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

It's a book about societal collapses resulting from poor decisions about the environment, resource-use, etc. One of the issues raised by a member was that we need to listen to "science" more and that science will save us. I raised the point that science does not solve everything.

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Science Medical Research Morals Medical 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Born in Gambia, raised and living in Sweden , Larsson illustrated three major guides before this one, all authored by Klaus Malling Olsen: Terns of Europe and North America (PUP, rev. Harrison is positive but pragmatic, he notes that even with the best research, enthusiasm, and skill, there will be times that identification is not possible.

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279