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. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 264

Critter News

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Good way to end 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 chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001.

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San Antonio Biomedical Research Albuquerque New Mexico 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

One important reason is the wide discrepancy in mid-winter count survey numbers—in Tennessee those figures were 44,000 counted in 2010 versus only 12,000 counted in 2011. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263