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10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2012
Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. Can you handle the cuteness? But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. We will have some of those less attractive baby birds as well.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. .” And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2012
Of course, that latter name could be applied to most of the Old World warblers, Jochen’s deluded thoughts about which warblers are best notwithstanding , but it particularly works for the young of the Barred Warbler. When the adult male bird has more than one mate, the femaleincubates the eggs and tends to the chicks alone.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2011
Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.
245 10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2011
Around 100,000 of these terns breed on almost every available space on the island, and walking through groups of them is a deafening and quite painful experience. Black Noddy ( Anous minutus ) Everyone’s favourite tern is of course the beautify White Tern , famous for nesting in the most lunatic of locations such as on bare branches.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2012
He’d like to thank his mom, his agent, and of course the Birding Academy. Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M. The votes are in, and Red-naped Sapsucker is the winner and my proud new nemesis, although Gray-crowned Rosy Finch also made a strong showing. Hooray, in short, for nest cams.
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10,000 Birds
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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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2023
So I took him to Paso Ancho, of course. I’ll still probably try again next June, as this June has been the driest and hottest in memory, and in my experience, summer rains make it much more likely that one will see the Sinaloa Martin. A Russet-crowned Motmot , of course. I wanted him to see all those beautiful endemics.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
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. My first instinct when something bites me, of course, is to yelp and yank my hand away with all possible speed.
237 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2019
Since this is the closest spot to the bird action, this is of course where we all want to be. “Pinto” is rice and beans and comes with your choice of eggs, breaded Tilapia, chicken or other options. Well yes, of course! Watch birds however you please… but seriously, you gotta experience the Cafe Colibri!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Cleaning brushes, for example.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose. Images courtesy of Pennsylvania State University Press.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.
162 10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Geography is destiny. 188 for that location and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
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Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
To make a great omelet you've just gotta break eggs. An Experiment. Of course you're afraid to dial the CFO. Is it your success? Ruffling feathers? Do you think you can hunt for new business and win without stepping on any toes? Next time you prospect a company, add a board member. Just add them on LinkedIn. Don't you!
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Animal Person
OCTOBER 18, 2009
As a result, for the first time in my life I've been living like many working people do: I get up early and rush around to make breakfast for myself and my husband and the three creatures, prepare lunches for my husband and myself (all vegan, of course) and then drive 1.5 It's been 92 degrees outside, by the way.
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Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Of course I was appalled, but out there in the mainstream world, she is an outlier. Of course that can be debated. People believe one thing and do another.
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Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 19, 2019
The top three things that you need to do are; Experiment. Experiment. Do not place all your eggs in one basket. One place that you can learn how to market yourself is an online MBA course. With this course you will learn the things that you need to know in order to run a successful marketing campaign.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2011
Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. Female Red-capped Plover on nest in jogging area Another nest was in the higher area behind where vehicles access the beach and despite the odds the eggs successfully hatched.
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10,000 Birds
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. The first eggs are usually laid at the end of May or sometimes in the first week of June, but this can vary depending on the weather. Swift boxes erected on an old mill on a Suffolk farm.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2021
One Oriental Pratincole of them was courageously raising its wings when I unknowingly drove towards its eggs – I reversed, but I am not so sure about the next person using that road … Being yelled at by the chick of an Oriental Pratincole. The birding life. A somewhat older chick. Also available as a set of two.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2023
And of course, there is the expected paper characterizing the mitochondrial genome of Collared Finchbill. Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. My mother is dead already, but she might have pointed out that she told me so.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2020
Of course, I always wake up hoping for a lifer or FOY bird. If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. Sometimes it is the experience that makes them memorable. But any birder can tell you that a bad day birding is better than a good day almost anywhere else.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. They were missed.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. This of course is not true.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. The Behaviour paragraph includes flight pattern and mating habits.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2023
In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses. In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches. The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2017
But, of course, regular 10,000 Birds readers know this from beat writer, Australian birder Clare Morton , whose writings about the birds of Broome and other Australian areas have taught many of us about the joys of Australian birding. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
That one with the cereal looked cool but of course it did because it was just a multi-colored drawing with a happy face. Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). Yes, this bird acts like a jay.
203 10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. I wrote about the experience here.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. And for that alone, we can be sure our world is richer in the high coursing flight of Peregrines and the man who was determined to bring them into our future.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2017
I myself picked up a tick while looking for warblers on Long Island during spring migration and had to do a course of antibiotics that played merry havoc with my digestive system, if you know what I mean. Steal and eat their eggs? They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience.
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
There will be no pies or cakes that were made with milk that was meant for calves, or eggs that represent dead male chicks , forced molting, debeaking and other mutilations and cruelties. Of course, the world outside of our home tells a different story. There will be no greyhound corpse on our table, no turkey corpse and no pig corpse.
100 10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
Green-striped Brush Finch, a Mexican endemic) to 14 pages (Song Sparrow, of course). Of course, Wright approaches identification from a historical viewpoint. And, the 1996 volume includes information on nests and eggs, a topic not covered by the Peterson guide. in German, and a Labrador Retriever named Gellert.
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