10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 174

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JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

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MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. Of course, he is talking about an American species, the Evening Grosbeak, but I assume the etymology is the same. ’ “ This has absolutely nothing to do with the Pale Thrush , of course.

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Iraq Birds China Ireland 130

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APRIL 1, 2024

Of course, me being me, this is a good reason to show it. As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. I am sure some people will hate this photo of a Eurasian Hoopoe , framed as it is by human artifacts.

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Chicago Birds Asia China 143

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MAY 27, 2024

One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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Iran Germany Research Humane 171

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Of course, given the sometimes confusing covid travel restrictions in China, it is possible that the bird in question simply did not dare to travel any further south for fear of ending up in quarantine somewhere. Both bushtit species occasionally are supported by helpers when breeding ( source ). You pervert.

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China Birds Reptiles Killing 147

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JUNE 13, 2022

Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. ” Like many Australian birds, they breed cooperatively with a varying number of helpers, often siblings or older offspring. Which of course is the perfect transition to that bird, the Common Myna. ” (HBW).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 192

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Here’s a diagram, available on the Audubon site , that compares its 2000 range with its anticipated 2080 range: Only 1 percent of the bird’s breeding range remains stable between 2000 and 2080 if global warming continues on its current course. … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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Species Los Angeles Science 2000 174

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Of course, the exact wording would have to be toned down a bit, but a premise such as “I want to adopt you because I would really like to f*ck your mother/father” would certainly find its audience. If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is?

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South Africa Africa Birds Fish 147

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic. .” So, it is definitely a pigeon, not a cuckoo, and my guess is that the cuckoo part of the name hints at the body shape of these species. But I may well be wrong.

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Geese Birds Fish Sparrows 147

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.”

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2018 Science Humane Species 101

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …). An Eastern Buzzard had goose for lunch.

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Birds Japan Germany Ducks 230

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MARCH 8, 2013

And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 159

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. The bird will therefore now be known as. Atlantisia Rogersi.

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Science Transported Shelters South Africa 201

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MAY 11, 2013

It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) No, this is a bird that, in the male breeding plumage, shows off a robust pinkness of head that is all the more vivid in contrast with the bird’s dark body.

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Myanmar Bangladesh Ducks Wisconsin 189

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MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Gabon 147

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JUNE 12, 2012

a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. Now that the data is being entered into eBird regularly even this extremely local look at breeding birds will have some value beyond sitting in a folder on a professor’s desktop. But I have a reason for that.

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North Carolina Transported Morals Science 156

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MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. Lots and lots of birds.

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Florida Birds Groups North Carolina 176

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Of course, most natural histories are based on research, but Weidensaul’s approach is highly specific. Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 219

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MAY 8, 2018

It contains numerous citations to the literature, as the process must be based on the best available science. In particular, a captive-breeding program (1960-2011) likely saved the species from imminent extinction (2,800 were released) and expanded the range of the species to islands where they had been extirpated.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 101

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. . We’ve all read Jurassic Park.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

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MARCH 4, 2011

Of course you could bring in here the debate over the whole subspecies concept: there are over 20 of these in the Herring gull-Lesser black-backed gull complex, so. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Breeding 157

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JULY 26, 2024

It’s when I step outside my back door, look up, and fail to spot the black scimitar shape of a Swift, coursing across the sky. However, it’s not until the end of the first week of May that the majority of the breeding birds return to our village. Young, non-breeding Swifts investigating nest sites.

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Liberia Africa Mozambique Breeding 209

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

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JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 178

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MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. . .”

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 171

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In Intriguingly, there are far more Bald Ibises in captivity than there are in the wild, for this is a bird that breeds readily in confinement. Bald Ibises are curious birds, for they are happy breeding in close proximity to man.

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Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 221

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” But of course, with this slight adaptation, it also works for blog posts and their writers, and allows me to plug another nice song by this underrated artist, before switching to birds. And yes, of course you missed my reference to somebody determining the mitochondrial genome of the species. How many times was it played?”

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 172

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JUNE 24, 2021

The fields near the Tiaozini mudflats look very much like a lunar landscape, but this does not seem to keep a number of species from breeding there, sometimes directly on dirt roads. But now back to birds … Little Ringed Plovers also seem to like to breed directly on the road. Blandness sells. Also available as a set of two.

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Uganda Birds Rats Breeding 211

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MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Quick: what’s this? Here’s the petition.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

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MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. It was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal province by Dr Andrew Smith.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

I jest a bit, of course, birders will never stop puzzling over Empids. For Myiarchus, we can study comparative bill size and shape, crown shapes, body coloration, chest contrast, face contrast, and, of course, undertail pattern and color. The spectrograms are much easier to read in this volume, larger and darker.

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Los Angeles North America America United States 174

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JUNE 22, 2023

Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. It thereby illustrates how pure science advances informed conservation actions to ensure the (short-term) stability of the target population, and how conservation-motivated analyses fed back to advance fundamental understanding of population processes.”

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China Science Birds Mongolia 130

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JULY 25, 2022

When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” Of course, if science is not for you, you can also look for the Spiritual Meaning of Willie Wagtail (“Unlock the amazing secrets of this spiritual symbol”) here.

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Australia Birds Mountain Goats Ducks 224

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course. The third hypothesis was supported.

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 198