10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. So say Kevin T.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
So comparisons of bill shapes, foot shapes, and the like can certainly stimulate the imagination, but we need rigorous science to explore and synthesize more molecular work, morphological analysis, and biogeographical hypotheses in order to close more gaps in our understanding.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2022
But that is science in hierarchical institutions). For comparison, here is a photo of the same species taken at Nanhui, Shanghai, far further east. Additional note: If you want to read about large-scale authorship fraud in the area of scientific authorship, Elena Ceaucescu is the name to google – or just go here ).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
Similar comparisons can be made with other bird features such as how their hips work. Many dinosaurs had feathers covering or adorning their bodies, but again, modern birds use feathers in ways that overlap with but are different from how those early non-bird dinosaurs used them (see: On The Threshold Of Flight.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
These are extremely detailed, covering distribution, behavior, and plumage by age and gender (when relevant) and comparisons with other species in and external to the group. George was a tour leader for Field Guides, Inc. He also wrote the newly published American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania (Scott & Nix).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2024
This is not, it should be noted, the sort of book in which a journeyman nature writer distills the ins and outs of some discrete marvel of natural or physical science to a lay readership. In this regard Europe is a distinct and strange outlier in comparison to other continents, for some reason still to be discovered.
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