Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine.

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San Antonio Biomedical Research Albuquerque New Mexico 100

Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

Because science, like facts, have a liberal bias. I am so glad this dim-witted moron is back in Texas. President Obama overturned a last minute Bush regulation that would have allowed agencies to skip consulting with govt. scientists when reviewing EPA rules. It will take a generation to clean up the damage he has done to this country.

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Obama America Texas Science 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2011

From a billionaire with an interest in science and a desire to clone his lover’s dog Missy, to the police dog from Nova Scotia who found the last survivor victim of the attacks on 9/11, the book is full of characters both human and animal. I was pulled into the book, and really had a hard time putting it down.

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Pets Sheep Science Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. In more recent history, two meteorological stations have been built on the island with the older dating back to 1948.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. led by Rich Hoyer); Surbound Expeditions (Florida, led by Alfredo Begazo); and Field Guides (Texas, led by Rose Ann Rowlett). This is his first contribution to 10,000 Birds. Come to Peru, they said. The Sunbird/Wings team celebrates with Rally director Manuel Bryce.

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Peru Birds South America Owls 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

I’ve been sciencing really hard lately. It’s not an exact science, but after a few weeks you get the idea of who is just hanging out on the local thermals and who is actually going north. Sure, the AOU has the final say in whats a species, whats not, yadda yadda yadda… but who tells them what to say? But I digress.

San Diego 155

San Diego Mississippi Mexico Science 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

They have co-authored a number of articles, including several on field identification for Birding and Texas Birds Annual. Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Fort Davis National Historic Site, in west Texas, just north of Big Bend National Park, served as a crucial supply depot for the Confederate’s Second Texas Mounted Rifles before being retaken by Union troops in 1862. Both of these places, as you can imagine, had some great birds to see.

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Birds Mississippi Vermont Texas 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The University of Texas A&M owns a research facility called the Soltis Center on a fabulous patch of primary forest. Yet, they eschewed the spotlight for a chance, which was disastrous considering that nobody else counted that species for the day. And then maybe you’ll turn up a Keel-billed Motmot!

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2014 Costa Rica Birds Groups 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. There is evidence that a unique Canadian prairie population of lesser sandhill cranes is being selectively wiped out, since they migrate over the most heavily hunted areas of Texas.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bonus note for science nerds (not related specifically to birds): Whenever Chinese researchers give percentages, they do so up to two digits behind the decimal – thus the exact percentages in the HBW citation above. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147