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On this final day of 2012 it is time, just like it was on the final days of 2010 and 2011 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2012, in no particular order. I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl.
January 27, 2012 Reports leak that BP chose to hide its own internal estimates of the scale of the spill. February 27, 2012 Reports of large marine animal strandings in the Gulf of Mexico continue to pile up in the first two months of 2012. April 16, 2012 BP Oil Spill Settlement is extended by judge.
Scientists who attached tracking devices to 10 of the birds in 2012 were shocked to discover that one had flown west across the Atlantic Ocean, and eventually settled down on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in South America. Along the wayward route, the Phalarope made stops in Iceland, Greenland, the continental U.S.,
Jackson, 2012. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers. For many years after the first documented bird was shot and its skin donated to the Smithsonian Institute, people had no idea where the bird nested, how it migrated, where it wintered, what it ate. photo by Lynn C.
A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. Taylor, Alex, Miller, Rachael, & Gray, Russell (2012).
The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Nature lovers who love to travel know that few experiences are more enjoyable than preparation for a big trip. Your theoretical trip list will always be so much more extensive and exotic than your actual list.
Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results. This resulted in a further deterioration in the ABA’s financial position, with net assets falling from -$57,000 in 2012 to -$249,000 in 2019.
Back when I first appeared on eBird for Michoacán, in 2012, the state’s Top “100” list only had 22 names by years’ end. Well, Chester Lamb was a researcher for University of California, Berkeley… who died in 1965. The key word here may be “Third” [Bird Festival, that is].
Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991). Which would be weird. I find that a little surprising since it is our national bird. Have a happy Thanksgiving! __ Sources: Badenhorst, Shaw, et.
From Nature : Eben Paxton, of the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center in Hawaii, and his colleagues analysed data on seven native species of forest bird on Kauai. Two of these species could be detected only in the interior region in 2012 surveys.
In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. In other words, the researchers sought to determine attributes important to birders, and how those attributes rank relative to each other. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.
There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? .
I want to talk about this research but if you really want to know more about it, don’t rely on me; one of the co-authors of this important paper is Darren Naish, who happens to be a stupendous blogger, and he has written the research up here. PNAS 2012 109 (27) 10927–10930; published ahead of print June 4, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204026109).
I also have a Grey-tailed Tattler that visits us and was marked with a plain white and an engraved blue flag “35″ in Taiwan in August 2012. I first observed it on 28th November 2012 and it left us and headed north to return to the exact same place to be observed on 19th November 2013.
Photo of Common Cuckoo by Flickr user jamalhaider There is some interesting new research you will want to know about concerning Reed Warblers and Cuckoos. Science 3 August 2012: 578–580 a. In the common European Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus , females come in two morphs: Gray or rufus.
He analogized the change to adding Hawaii to the ABA Area, which is puzzling since that modest change was preceded by years of debate, a membership referendum (in 2012), and a formal vote (in 2016). Given that most birders have to conduct research to determine whether a particular name is offensive ( e.g. , what about Leach’s Storm Petrel?
In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.
Since 2012, I was fortunate to spend a considerable amount of time birding through southern Borneo almost each year, and this new book meant that I now have four field guides for Borneo at my service. I love taxonomic research, speciation in birds was one of my primary subjects during my university days. van Balen, N. Brickle & F.
I was doing my thesis research at the time, and it even affected what I was doing, as the wild world was being reconceptualized in terms of tannins and alkaloids, seed edators and dispersers, and so on. The next stage in this research is obvious. If there is such a thing as wild tobacco. Suarez-Rodriguez, M.,
Cindy described the event and posted photos on the blog she had been keeping since Ty was diagnosed, on the home page of the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation, a non-profit organization she and her husband Lou set up to spread awareness and fund research for pediatric cancer. Ty died peacefully at home yesterday, on October 17, 2012.
With some research, I ended up with more questions than answers, making these birds all the more interesting! They seem to be mostly tied to the presence of mature tropical hardwood hammock, although the actual extent of this habitat does not seem to be important (such as the wintering 2012-13 bird in tiny ‘Lucky Hammock’).
I did a little research and found plovers and snipe o n menus and in cookbooks of the time, though I still haven’t found recipes for Dunlin or Dowitchers. They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S. Dunne and Karlson live and work in Cape May, N.J.,
” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. Rutgers University Press/Rivergate Books, 2012.
2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.
Issue Date: 2012-05-01. Author: By Dave Stein, CEO and Founder, ES Research Group, Inc. Teaser: It makes little sense to spend the time and money training and developing your sales team when the people in whom you are investing do not have the capability for sustainable improvement. read more
The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing.
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.
From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) The nature memoir – a blend of place-based writing with life story – has been having a “moment” that’s lasted two decades and counting. the hits keep coming.
And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. photo of Elizabeth Gehrman: Ingrid Skousgard, 2012.
The research team reporting on these fish carried out a stable isotopic analysis to see what role Pigeons may play in the diet of these fish. So, if a predator eats mainly one kind of organism, that predator’s tissues will have a signature indicating its diet. Clearly, there is something unique going on here. Cucherousset, J., Boulêtreau, S.,
Lovitch’s writing style is low-key and conversational, embedding lessons about geography and habitat into personal stories drawn from his many years birding across the United States as a tour leader, interpretative naturalist, researcher, writer, and just plain birder. (He He currently owns and runs Freeport Wild Bird Supply in Maine.)
Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.
In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences. .” 16, below).”
1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.
SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 2012 – Ask any birder where you should go birding in Singapore and the short list will always include Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve , this city-state’s finest wetlands. Birdlife International has classified the Chinese Egret as Vulnerable, with researchers pegging the total population somewhere around 3,000.
Birders, photographers and wildlife watchers, through this financial avenue, could have a voice in Refuge diversity as well as in innovative research, education and habitat programs. It would be a separate but parallel and symbiotic addition to Refuge budgets. We need 25,000 signatures by December 14th so let’s get crackin’!
Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up! On June 16, 2012 R&R will be driving through Union, Middlesex, Monmouth Counties and more to bring hundreds of items to the shelter on Route 22. Hillman, President and Co-Founder of Rock &Rawhide.
To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.
I can’t imagine they were expecting anyone to research the line as much as I now regret doing! And how it became the tagline on a can of beer from a craft brewery in Connecticut is equally mysterious, but brewers can be a funny bunch, too. I guess it just sounded good.
Author: By Dave Stein, CEO and Founder, ES Research Group, Inc. Teaser: Even though $18 billion was invested in customer relationship management systems in 2012, many sales leaders continue to struggle to get value from their investment. Issue Date: 2013-07-01. read more'
I like knowing that Ari Friedlaender, who wrote the section of Cetaceans, is a marine biologist affiliated with Duke University who studied Humpback Whales in Antarctica, and that Phil Trathan, who wrote the Penguins section, is a senior research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey who has conducted a census of Emperor Penguins.
2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. The book is designed with quick searching and researching in mind, with colored blocks indicating bird family in upper right and left corners, common bird names in large, bold print, and a highly readable font. It’s designed for carrying about in the field, sized 4.5
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