10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.

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Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 3 Canadian territories) are asked to be on the lookout for these birds as they migrate toward their northern breeding grounds. Researchers have a good understanding of Rusties’ summer and winter locations, but don’t know much about where they stop along the way, in what numbers, and for how long.

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Blackbirds Vermont Collecting Fish 252

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. of Army Medical Department 1815-1851.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

So this new research is very interesting, and we applaud the scientists for their work. These researchers carried out two different major efforts that in combination advance our understanding of the evolution of the bird beak. Figuring that out would be a next step in this research, and will likely prove difficult.

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Alligators Chickens Birds Reptiles 267

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whaling 208

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Information is often highly detailed. Some people love books like that. Egg biology, from Part I.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Asia Breeding 175

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. Trinidad is the northern limit of the range of the Red-breasted Blackbird , though it is unclear if the occasional birds that show up in Tobago are wanderers from Trinidad or northern South America or are breeding there.

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Blackbirds Trinidad Costa Rica Nicaragua 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time. Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. This flock is composed of about 54 birds including nine breeding pair.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Ecuador 270

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change falls squarely in the middle of this range: while it is unlikely to be picked up for beach reading, it is written at a level suitable for an undergraduate student or informed layperson. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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Netherlands Buffalo Science Penguins 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

The Telomere does not contain useful genetic information, but rater, acts as a buffer. They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive.

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Zebras Mammals Primates Birds 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. There is a coordinator that makes contact with the banders in the overseas countries and then the information on the individual bird is posted online. Eastern Curlew. A small flock of shorebirds roosting in Broome.

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Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

I have all four of his field guides on my bookshelf; I enjoy their friendly, informative approach and identification aids (cheat sheets! 154, photo by Jacob Spendelow Earley is an experienced, adroit writer and easily incorporates important information, enthusiasm and a sense of fun into the text. Bohemian Waxwing, p. Boreal Owl, p.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Currently endemic to a single valley system in the Andes of Ecuador, this species escaped detection from researchers for thirty years until the rediscovery of a few pairs in November 1998 by Dr. Neils Krabbe. At the time of its rediscovery, only about a half-dozen pairs were known to exist.

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California Condor Ecuador Blackbirds Parrots 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. When Purple Finches leave Ontario in October and November, they return in mid-April to mid-May to breed. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added. For a full version of the forecast, head here.

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2014 2015 Alaska New Hampshire 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2016

Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs of owls for the first national and second pan-European atlas of breeding birds. So, what makes this playback use different from any other?

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Owls Birds Investigation Breeding 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume. Karlson, and Brian E.

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North America America Family Falcons 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. Species Accounts are smartly designed, utilizing font color and size to organize information and help the user quickly find it. Van Remsen, Jr.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche.

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California Condor California Idaho Utah 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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Japan 2012 Taiwan China 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Medical Research 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with.

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Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2024

As I did not find any new and interesting information about the species, I did what everybody does these days – I asked ChatGPT. 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.

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Chicago Birds Asia China 219

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not. The history of the Wild Turkey, the reduction to its original range, and its re-expansion and re-introduction, remains today unclear and in need of further research.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 260

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

My high-level impression is that ChatGPT can synthesize lots of information and produce results that initially seem impressive, but that it still makes obvious mistakes and some of its algorithms can lead it astray, particularly for a subject like birding where there is likely a paucity of credible source material on the internet.

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

The photo above is a breeding-plumaged Myrtle Warbler by Kelly Colgan Azar. Thus, despite the unusual situation with two mtDNA types, Audubon’s and Black-fronted warblers otherwise appear to show clinal geographic variation, and unless new information is discovered, do not seem to be reproductively isolated.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 267

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. How is birding like rock climbing? Also, Rogers knows how to write an essay.

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

Birds of New Jersey , written by Joan Walsh, Vince Elia, Rich Kane, and Thomas Halliwell, published by New Jersey Audubon Society, was a landmark volume; 704-pages long, it presented results of the 1993-1997 New Jersey Breeding Bird Atlas. It also reported on state migration patterns and rare bird records. Should you buy this book?

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New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 250

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors. The Plates.

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North America Mississippi Bald Eagle Falcons 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” Examples of two types of informational aids offered in both guides: Pictorial Contents for Songbirds (Birds of Costa Rica) and Key to Species Range Maps (Birds of Belize). ” These are just some examples.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

A “brief” overview of the history of ornithological exploration spans for good three and a half pages of a rather informative and inspirational reading. They cover all species and distinctive subspecies, non-passerines in flight, males and females, immatures and non-breeding plumages.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Also, the low weight of this edition allows for an entire 26 pages-long and fairly detailed information on 68 birding hotspots in the introduction chapter and for 11 pages of the Cyprus checklist in the back. His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region.

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Cyprus Saudi Arabia Europe Birds 264

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 5, 2013

“Before bringing home a new pet, owners should research a breed’s energy level and temperament to make sure it matches up with the owners’ lifestyle.”. Royal Canin’s breed specific formulas are available at pet specialty stores such as PetSmart and PETCO, as well as independent pet stores nationwide. cats dogs'

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Cats Dogs Lifestyle Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

Specifically, the notice summarizes the long history of Hawaiian Goose conservation, including written recovery plans in 1983 and 2004 , implementation of those plans, and research, including a population viability analysis. Also, research filled in many knowledge gaps and informed conservation efforts.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 131