10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
You’ll need to find yourself an albatross. Gratuitous Black-browed Albatross photo ( Thalassarche melanophrys ) not engaging in dancing Albatrosses are the longest lived of an already long lived order of birds, the petrels, and are in fact among the longest lived of all birds. So what is going on?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts. The species readily takes to nesting in small artificial boxes, and the scientists of PRBO Conservation Science have over 450 such boxes scattered across the island to monitor the species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
About six-and-a-half years ago I had the privilege of watching a young Waved Albatross on the Galapagos island of Española learning how to fly. It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. So, what did I learn from Far From Land ?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Hugh Powell is a science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We’ll go on a pelagic trip and you can wave at albatrosses. Hugh, who years ago helped me find my first Pauraque in the Rio Grande Valley , visited Peru as part of the 2014 World Birding Rally, where he stopped thinking of himself as an experienced birder.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2018
However, articulated in a short introductory chapter, they shortchange the ornithological community and science in general. Species are useful handles (p. ” Furthermore, the American Ornithological Society is defined as “a club of ornithologists, and like many clubs it has various committees (p.16, 16, below).”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).
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