California Experience Experiments Science 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. She crafts her prose with a visual immediacy that bring you directly into her experience.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum. Think about it for a minute.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
First, you get to tour one of their California centers , you get a special opportunity to see a Pelican getting its final medical exam and numbered leg band, plus you get the honor of releasing one, or in my case, two of their rehabilitated pelicans! There are advantages to being a “Pelican Partner” for International Bird Rescue
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There’s more than one song per warbler?
10,000 Birds
JULY 30, 2014
Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. In California I smelt the breath a Blue Whale as it passed feet beneath my boat. There is no feeling in the world like knowing your helping something you care about, whether its sharks or puffins, protecting forests or reefs, advancing science or communities.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2013
The last thing you want to do is ignore certain subspecies just because you’ve seen another one; in other words, skip looking for a Northern Fulmar off Maine just because you’ve seen them off California. This “California” Clapper Rail was photographed in Alameda, CA. Birds I Am Birder splitting taxonomy'
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