10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think about science reporting on this vast Internet of ours. When you receive a link to an article in the Daily Mail , for instance, your thoughts do not immediately leap to “my god, a ground-breaking, perhaps even mind-blowing advance in the study of avian tool use!”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The more data about bird migration we gather from professional and citizen science efforts, the more each one of us can learn about the comings and goings of our favorite species. Obviously, when Audubon and Cornell Lab of Ornithology collaborate on a Bird Migration Forecast tool, the result is going to be pretty spectacular.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide has 240 pages and more than 1,000 photos accompanied by a brief text to make bird ID easy.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Author Sophie A. Osborn, photo by Lisa Koitzsch, © Sophie A.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

PetMD and Hill’s Pet Nutrition have partnered to create a wonderful interactive tool to help dog owners understand proper nutrition! Hill’s has also recently launched new Science Diet Ideal Balance pet food – a wholesome, meat-first, corn free pet food that is guaranteed to make a visible, healthy difference in just thirty days.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). The moral of the story: As our knowledge of genetics grows, and this tool becomes more accessible to more researchers, things we think we know about birds may change. Breeding range map by David Toews/Cornell Lab). But do keep an eraser handy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2016

Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with years of research under his belt, doesn’t quite achieve perfection with this book on the totality of that strange entity, the bird’s egg, but he makes a valiant effort of it and comes away with a very interesting book indeed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., D’Alba, L., Vinther, J.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Harnessing the power of money is therefore a very important tool for conservation then. Not the solution to every problem, but a powerful tool for many problems. Conservation conservation science hunting logging'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

However, articulated in a short introductory chapter, they shortchange the ornithological community and science in general. Sullivan is no slouch when it comes to writing; he has co-authored The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors with Richard Crossley and Jerry Liguori (2013); Better Birding: Tips, Tools, and Concepts for the Field with George L.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. With the Wildlife Conservation Stamp, birders can readily support a funding tool that represents our ecological interests , while providing the Refuges with a growing population of willing participants and contributors. A lot more money! Let’s look at some facts.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Armistead and Brian L. Le Conte’s Sparrow!”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2014

Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” The talk described eBird’s origins in 2002 and traced its history as a project aimed at using “citizen science” to help researchers and conservationists learn more about birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The multitude of tools and ways you can enter/view your personal data is quite impressive, and it only continues to grow…although it might be on a subconscious level, embracing eBird more can be another kick in the butt to get out in the field.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information. Where do albatrosses and shearwaters (indeed, most seabirds) go during the years between fledging and breeding? Who is it for?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2010

It was through her research that she learned how chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat and engage in war-like activity. The purpose of her trip was to study the behavior of the resident chimpanzees in order to better understand humans. What she learned then added to our understanding of what means to be human.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),

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Animal Person

JUNE 1, 2009

Having misled us for so long about animals, science is initiating a revolution in our understanding. Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk). Check out the rest and let me know what you think. Why can we talk? Humanized' mice speak volumes (scienceblog.com).

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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. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. In her free time she travels near and far to find birds to continue building her life list, though many of her favorites can still be found right in her own backyard. After all this, the unhappy bird would be released back into the air.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2006

I had a strong interest in science because of its reliance on reason and skepticism, which struck me as very good tools for truth seeking (which is ultimately what I am interested in). When I came across Philosophy, I immediately saw that it was the tree from which the branch of science had grown.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can. I can understand why some people are conflicted, but the value to science of the collections is immense. We should be honest about science and conservation, even if it isn’t always the easiest path.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Simon Baron-Cohen, cousin to the comedian. Seriously, this book is crying out for a movie treatment!). Mostly adult males.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. eBird is a definite must to keep your list up to date, with many useful tools such as target ebird.org/targets. It turned out Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who just completed his PhD in Lausanne (Switzerland).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Indeed, given the great length of time over which Aves has existed in its more or less modern form, it is quite possible that the original primordial mechanism of finding one’s way, or the mechanism for knowing when it is time to leave, or other migration-related tools of the trade, were lost in some but not all lineages. 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

” There is also a Glossary, mostly of anatomical parts; A Bibliography of sources; a list of useful Websites–citizen science programs like iNaturalist that contain records of Costa Rican odonates; a listing of Photo Credits; and an “Index to Species and Families” (but not genera).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Videos, like the illustrations and diagrams included in the book, help make literature about science, especially theoretical science, more accessible to us non-scientists. Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Phenology is a vital science. As it turns out, a useful tool for the amateur phenologist is a dog. Among other things, it has provided some of the earliest and most compelling evidence for global warming. It also lends itself to the interested amateur; all you need is a notebook and a willingness to observe. But good phenology is hard.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. It gives the advanced birder the tools with which to identify vagrant birds. Will Russell is a founder and managing director of WINGS, now “semi-retired.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. It’s good to have tools to help us know their names. * Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen and Hans Larsson was published by Christopher Helm, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, in 2003.

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