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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2013)

10,000 Birds

This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2013)

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To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Winter has come early and often to Western NY. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

10,000 Birds

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. This sounds – and is – dark. They don’t, and I know it.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

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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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I like Birding by Impression.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Cocker put out a call for people’s personal experiences with birds and people responded, over 600 people, most of who are credited in the Acknowledgements section. Random House UK, September 2013. ” One of the more interesting aspects of Birds and People is its use of stories by just plain people. Birds & People.

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Chaser, the dog that knows 1000 words! #Chaser1000

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Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! Yasha paved the way for what would later happen with Chaser, as Yasha often would take part in many classroom behavioral experiments. Sometimes, they might even know too much!

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