10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2024
Southern Spain has been suffering from a long-term drought for a few years already. My client has a healthy watersheds strategy and I was going to Sevilla and Jaen for the first steps of the program. The science-based approach that recognises the dilemmas and identifies the hard choices isn’t election material, I suppose.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2024
” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. The Spot-breasted Parrotbill suffers a bit from having a contradicting scientific species name, guttaticolis , meaning “spot-throated” or “spot-necked” rather than spot-breasted. A giant squirrel, actually. Or something like that.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
There is a bit of science news. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. I got it on “film” using my camera, but they were so far away you can only see them for a second, and you can only see a few hundred.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2012
At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. My ABA list suffered from poor documentation, while keeping track of country, state, and county lists wasn’t even a viable option. But Nate is an eBird fanatic.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? And for what?
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