10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
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.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
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.,
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
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).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
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.
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