10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
It is a true rail ; and besides this there is nothing specifically like it known to science, although it may be that certain rails living on islands in the Pacific Ocean may have sprung from the same original stock. This post was first published in February 2010, but a bird this cool and inaccessible deserves more attention! ).
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
FWS released a 5-year review of the species in 2010. More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Donna]: Danielle Whittaker takes a personal viewpoint of a very different aspect of ornithology in The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent , a perfect blend of science and autobiography. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Schulman, 2010. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador. The knowledge of its population status, ecology, and background story added color, depth, and meaning to what I was seeing — a species that disappeared from science, was rediscovered, and brought back from the brink of extinction.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.
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