10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Since their habitat has been destroyed, wildlife become displaced and must spend more time searching for food, water and shelter. This is about 35 miles West of my home.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2013
To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! In the face of endless snow, all I want to do is seek shelter, warmth, and booze. Winter has come early and often to Western NY.
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10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. It is a small bird of the rail species, I think, wingless, unable to fly, but can run with great speed, shelters in the tussock, and lives in a burrow.
Critter News
JUNE 29, 2009
The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. The university also purchased dogs from the shelter up until 2007, Carruth said. I bet there's probably some ugly stuff in those records.
Critter News
AUGUST 12, 2009
Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. ALF activists burned the hunting lodge of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. It hasn't been your week has it, Daniel? We will attack your private life wherever possible.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2016
The science currently believes that up to twenty five percent of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef could be lost to bleaching in the next forty years. In fact it is not just the eastern coast that is experiencing this phenomenon, but it it also now present along our own coastline here in Broome.
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