Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? From West Virginia Metro News. The new facility is expected to result in 253 additional permanent jobs on the WVU campus, including 13 directly in the animal quarters and 240 in biomedical research laboratories around the Health Sciences Center.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Virginia’s Warbler –which never turns up in Virginia–can be the Big-eyed Warbler. Even worse, such sobriquets obscure insight into the birds themselves.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ Smith’s Longspurs, Vermillion Flycatchers, Burrowing Owls, Long-billed Curlews, Virginia Rails, Black Terns, Crested Caracaras–there’s a bird here for every taste.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
410)) to info on habitat and range (“In the Rockies and other arid mountains of the interior Southwest, Virginia’s Warbler prefers scrubby brush interspersed with pinyon-juniper and yellow pine” (p. 334) is how Black Skimmer is introduced).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2014
Proving that cruelty knows no bounds, some (language unsuitable for a family blog) in Virginia Beach is shooting blow darts at birds. Meanwhile, an Oregon farmer caught a beating from a neighbor irritated by his loud “bird cannons.” (Who Who knew there was such a thing?).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2018
Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Virginia Rail – Rallus limicola. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
A five-year study of the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail recently reported that the trail attracts more than 640,000 visitors annually, infusing more than $8.6 million into the state economy each year. 95% of these visitors plan to visit the Trail again.
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