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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged.

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MARCH 19, 2012

There is the blog The Drinking Bird , but what about the drinking birder? In researching this blog post I did stumble across a blog I had not heard of before entitled The Drunkbirder , but I failed to find a single post on that blog that involved over-imbibing and birding. Do people go birding while inebriated?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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JULY 15, 2015

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” This is interesting right now because the AVian Phylogenomics Consortium has just announced the Bird 10K project, which ties together a pile of previously done research with some exciting new projects just taking off now.

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APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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MARCH 30, 2015

Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. It sure looks like it!

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2009

He is the assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. Tags: chimpanzees medical research animal welfare. Here's his post about it.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

I have always assumed that scientific researchers can overlay weather information on checklists for their research, but absent manual entry, that such information would not be available to me. I want to help environmental and research organizations create more useful tools and resources.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. In Trinidad and Tobago, the Aripo Agricultural Research Station is easily the best place to see Red-breasted Blackbirds (to say nothing of South American Snipe , Fork-tailed Flycatchers , and a host of other cool birds).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

We here at 10,000 Birds are pleased to announce that two new Beat Writers have agreed to risk their spare time, their reputations, and their credibility by agreeing to blog here on 10,000 Birds! … Blogging bloggers'

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SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

TV Broadcast Advertising Drives 60% of Viewers to Research Online TV has the Furthest Reach According to a study by TVB , TV broadcast advertising has the highest reach of all ad types. TVB says that 60% of consumers over the age of 18 go to the internet to do research on products and services they see promoted on broadcast TV ads.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The photograph of Cory’s Shearwater is from this blog post. Birds Navigation Olfaction research Sheawater' Oceanic navigation in Cory’s shearwaters: evidence for a crucial role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement Journal of Experimental Biology, 216 (15) DOI: 10.1242/jeb.085738.

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MARCH 31, 2011

As you might surmise, I spend an inordinate amount of time every day thinking about both birding and blogging. In fact, since this is such a busy season for us, the only way I can spare the mental bandwidth to indulge in bird blogging at all is to somehow incorporate test prep. Perhaps we’re alike in that.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. . Will you help?

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

For me, writing good quizzes has meant working long hard hours, researching, emailing, reading field guides, conferring with master birders around the world. Thank you to Corey and Mike for the opportunity to blog with the premier bird bloggers in the world. Good birding, good blogging and good reading to you all.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

En route they will be “birding in nearly every country in mainland North and South America,” and, as they say on their excellent blog , “Our journey is about collecting valuable data on bird species, their status and distribution, current conservation issues, and more along the way.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. In the winters the snow lies heavy and researchers travel in and out by small plane.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

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. So go read that for sure, and revel in the excellent graphics. 1204026109).

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APRIL 22, 2024

Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Using the Birds of Peru field guide to identify a species of antshrike This course has three admirable objectives: To train the next generation of Neotropical bird researchers, both international and Peruvian, in efficient and standardised mist-netting, bird ringing/banding, and bird ageing skills.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2011

Originally found in Europe, the Italian Wall Lizard was shown in a research study to be a species that evolved rapidly when it was genetically isolated, and it would be interesting to see if the American population has developed any morphological differences. So get out there and see what you can see – it’s well worth it!

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JANUARY 8, 2019

These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. territory of Puerto Rico, an American territory where researchers have numerous ongoing investigations, including many studies in El Yunque National Forest.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

You know what one of my favorite things is about bird blogging? It’s all of the things I learn about different birds from researching to write posts. Here are a couple of shots I took of a juvenile Heermann’s Gull on the beach. .

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

When Corey wrote his ideas about spending money on blogs and birders , I felt a very familiar feeling that I have felt for many years: Why are there not 20 birding shows and a Television BIRD NETWORK? Money will spill over to sponsor research projects, money to support nature centers, money to fund education. How will it help Birds?

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MAY 25, 2011

One of his most memorable birding experiences was the six months spent in Northeast Brazil performing research on a new species of bird called the Araripe Manakin. Mike is currently the Birding Market Specialist for Nikon Sport Optics and provides outstanding content for the Nikon Birding Blog.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Seriously, it is much nicer to blog about a brown bird with a descriptive name than some other bird whose common name references an ancient ornithologist none of us have ever met. This post is about the subspecies rufa from Java, because that’s the only subspecies I’ve seen so far.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Further research revealed the Bird Hybrids blog ( [link] ) has several revealing photographs of this (and many other) hybrids. However, if you want to know what a Racklehahn looks like, take a look at The Bird Hybrids Blog which has some great photographs.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Kaufman says he worked on this book for five years and it shows in the depth of research, scope of topic, and the elegance of his writing. He brings together historical and scientific timelines, taxonomic descriptions, biographical anecdotes, entries from explorers’ journals, recent scholarship (notably Matthew R.

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MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I blame Charlie Sheen.

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JUNE 20, 2022

The HBW entry for the Downy Woodpecker (Reno, USA) illustrates a common phenomenon – apparently, the more a species is known, the more subjects for further research pop up. The main point of having self-imposed rules when writing a blog is to break them whenever desired.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In short, they turn their attention to every facet of bird existence and examine the current research minutely for evidence that avian life is being impacted by rising global temperatures and the knock-on consequences thereof. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

It is reasonable to assume that you – you reader of this blog – howevermuch you may have interest in the starnose mole, the common octopus, and other of Higgins’ zoological examples — you like birds best of all. That innate sense of direction is, according to recent research, a result of the ability to detect the earth’s magnetic field.

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APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. A 5% grade is steeper than I thought, but research suggests that 5% is acceptable.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, it is hard to justify such an obsession in a blog post ostensibly all about birds. This, as any scientist will tell you, surely requires further research. The last few days, I have been mildly obsessed with a Velvet Underground cover version of “I’m waiting for the man” by Matt Berninger (video here ).

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SalesFuel

MARCH 18, 2024

Sales research is incredibly important but not all sellers take the time to do it. One reason is that they just aren’t doing enough research before engaging with a prospect. But, those who are researching are reaping the rewards. If you aren’t confident in your research skills, know that they can be improved.

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