10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

Since this research has a strong citizen science component, we want to help Pavel spread the word: What happens with birdsong during invasion of a new territory? A similar citizen science project in the Czech Republic was a huge success. Can it work? During two years, more than 1,700 recordings were obtained.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

The Terra Project is an exciting collaboration between bird guide author Scott Whittle , wildlife tracker manufacturer CTT , and non-profit Conservation Science Global. Terra sounds like that dream device. If you find this as fascinating as I do, get in on the ground floor of the Terra Project Kickstarter. The post What is the Terra Project?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. That's why so many people don't want to talk about these issues. It upsets them. But their silence and cluelessness is essentially their consent.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some lingered to gaze at samples from the Field’s collection of bird specimens, such as perfectly preserved thrushes, warblers, and even a Rose-breasted Grosbeak under glass. They seem to be a friendly lot, with inquisitive minds and cheerful natures, and are always on the go. Oh, if I didn’t have a day job!). I study Juncos now.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

Recently, our ordinal level project, a large international consortium led by researchers from BGI, University of Copenhagen, and Duke University, and including investigators from more than 20 countries, sequenced and/or collected the genomes from 48 bird species representing nearly all orders and covering a broad range of evolutionary diversity.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected. Do it for science! To that end they are attaching lightweight tracking devices to Snowy Owls so we can learn what individual owls are doing. Like Desi, Project SNOWstorm wants to know what the owls are doing. Do it for Bill!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

So desirable was it, however, to find out what this flightless rail was like that he left collecting material with the late Rev. It is a true rail ; and besides this there is nothing specifically like it known to science, although it may be that certain rails living on islands in the Pacific Ocean may have sprung from the same original stock.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Persons 1 and 2 copy the page exactly and each give it to three other people.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. So drink up.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2016

Moreover, in tracing some of its more tangled tales it sheds valuable light on how both science and language work when confronted with a vast and unruly collection of living things – by which I mean both the birds and the people who want to identify them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science' Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! Thanks for your support!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2021

Still, to be more realistic, there were 120,000 volunteer fieldworkers from all countries in Europe to collect data on 596 breeding bird species from across 48 countries and 11 million square kilometres in a systematic and standardised manner – one of the biggest citizen science projects on biodiversity ever.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

What ornithology doesn’t seem to have is the strange demi-world that so haunts primatology, marine biology, and even herpetology — the loosely-linked collections of legends and field reports that seem to indicate the existence of species that are biologically plausible but officially unknown to science in the face of repeated searches — (..)

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' Schools, libraries, roads, hospitals, and the like.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2018

Of all the ways people choose to pass their time, few recreational activities are as tightly bound to science as birding. When we separate sport from science, opportunity for enjoyment increases immeasurably. For many, the list matters much more than the science behind it. Imagine the possibilities!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This is more than clear from the data they wish to collect, which emphasizes waterfowl over shorebirds, and seems to completely ignore the other birds that occur around bodies of water. (It And even when I did try, my counts came up significantly lower than the science people’s count.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2018

The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. The 117th Audubon Christmas Bird Count began yesterday and runs through January 5th.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I was also notified of a study of Brant behavior that is being done collectively by wildlife agencies from New Jersey, New York, and Canada. Sure, it’s a common bird but by looking at and digiscoping it I learned about a study I didn’t know was happening, I learned what light-level geolocators look like, and I helped science!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science. As Cocker writes in the Introduction , “It is only when whole societies collectively believe in the goal that it is attainable.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

(Note from a grumpy ex-scientist: It is absurd that such a highly specific paper has 10 authors – it seems anybody who collected feathers, analyzed them, owned the equipment that analyzed them, or just found them pretty got on the list of authors. But that is science in hierarchical institutions).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. It’s a simple but amazing idea. We birders are curious after all, and learning a little bit about other birders is a great way to keep birders on eBird.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 22, 2018

According to that same survey, companies that collect proposal data use it to track how long it takes to create proposals and RFPs, determine the number of completed responses, and analyze win/loss data from previous efforts.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* The result is a different kind of book.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

However, if you could auction off each quart to the highest bidder, you’d have an idea about the collective value of those quarts. Thus, there is no conventional market-clearing price for economists to observe, so it is much harder to document society’s collective overall willingness to pay. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

A case of mistaken identity, this rare and secretive species, was only officially described to science in the last year. The mistake has its origins in 1878, when ornithologists Henry Tristram and Allan Hume both collected specimens of what was then described as Hume’s owl.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story. There’s no accounting for taste.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. 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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Kittlitz’s Murrelet at least is named after an actual naturalist, Heinrich von Kittlitz, who bummed around the Pacific on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg. Besides his murrelet, Kittlitz collected the only known specimens of the Kosrae Starling , a lovely long-beaked black bird that deserved better.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In 1996, several pipit specimens were collected for DNA analysis and it turned out that there was not one, but two new species to science in this sample! The Long-tailed Pipit was the more obvious one, this species turning up every winter in this arid region of South Africa, before mysteriously disappearing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

Individually, all of the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. The birding report is clear on its definitions of “birder” but has the same challenge, namely drawing inferences from survey data collected for a different purpose.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

Individually, all the indirect measures that follow are imperfect, but collectively they provide some insight. While we cannot realistically conduct another survey with different questions or construct different categories with the FWS data, we can assess its conclusions with other data.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

Data were collected from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the Pan-European Common Birds Monitoring Scheme. I want to alert you to a recent study (from April) that looks at the plight of bird populations under conditions of climate change in Europe and North America. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87).

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