10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Where did you see an eagle?

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Bald Eagle Eagles Psychology Birds 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, on behalf of the breed, animals went unneutered (an animal welfare faux pas) and individuals who couldn’t be tamed were allowed to roam feral on their owners’ farms (an environmentalist no-no) and their potential as meat animals was taste-tested and they were even cross-bred to impart their hardy but docile genes to other, more common types.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest.

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. We test the hypothesis that these suites of traits have evolved independently on each island via natural selection pressures from one of two predator regimes – birds-only and birds + snakes. All I see are their buts.

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Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines Apes 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. That kicked off our One-Eyed Project – we fly and test all one-eyed raptors, and it continues to this day.”. “I’ve Last year he came back to our area with a female.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.” As George Fenwick, president of American Bird Conservancy stated, “If non-lead ammunition is good enough for the U.S. ” Benefits of non-lead ammunition: Less prone to fragmenting as it is harder than traditional lead.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2017

One of the nestlings decided to test its flight feathers during the photo shoot, to the dismay of its sibling. The Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nestling has a dark brown iris… which becomes a buffy brown within a year… and then pale yellow at maturity as is the case with this leucistic Bald Eagle.

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Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Eagles Species 100