10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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Geese Birds Fish Sparrows 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

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.* I wish Karlson and Rosselet had cited scientific articles explaining the basics of brain psychobiology to support their ideas.

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New Jersey Birds Science New York City 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. And of course, Carl Hiaasen, who unintentionally taught me how to write a novel. The book is darkly funny. Why did you decide it was important to find humor in Luna’s experience?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 253

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe. The African Hoopoe looks very much like the Eurasian one but is now considered a separate species by most authorities.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science ," thankfully wasn't called Pepper, the stolen dog that changed American science," so that was an encouraging sign. Pepper was a beloved family pet. In a five-part series to be published over the course of this week, Slate will explore her legacy.

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Research Biomedical Research Animal Welfare Animal Protection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Diversity of habitat means, of course, great biodiversity, and the Introduction boasts that Bolivia “is the richest landlocked nation on Earth for bird diversity, the sixth richest overall, and the fifth richest in the Americas” (p. This unfortunately happens with the large Tanager (Thraupidae) family here.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. An identification guide for an overlooked bird family? This is a project that clearly spanned decades. And for good reason.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Having flown to Washington State on a family vacation the first obstacle was easily out of the way, which you knew already if you ever read this blog. when the puffin flew past, a bird that the whole family can appreciate. The second obstacle was to find a specific location where Fratercula cirrhata is regularly seen.

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Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 169

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Second, many of these performers were married and the idea of travel, even incentive travel, meant their families would be on their own for a few days. They also presumed everyone would like to get away for a few days, and of course, who wouldn’t want to spend quality personal time with their company’s leaders?

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Family Research Groups Science 70

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Email lists, blogs, websites, forums, Facebook groups, and of course eBird (see below) has completely revolutionized the way birders get their business handled. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., 2) The internet has changed everything.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family. Lovich and Whit Gibbons.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, almost none of these questions are asked directly but carefully gleaned by weaving the conversation along in a totally friendly manner, trying to make sure you have all the information necessary to make your client have an unforgettable experience at Cristalino. 12:30PM: Lunch time!

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Otters Parrots Birds Brazil 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Of course, most natural histories are based on research, but Weidensaul’s approach is highly specific. With so many book indexes listing species under family name, I am thankful that the decision was made NOT to list all 39 owl species under the heading “Owl.”

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 219

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Through the course of the paper, Mayr puts a slew of recent studies (including Hackett et al.’s The relationships among these families have been pretty well sorted out, and the entire clade belongs in a clade of landbirds ( passerines, parrots, diurnal raptors, mousebirds, owls , etc.)

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Madagascar Louisiana Penguins Germany 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 185

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. How does the health of a farmer’s family and community figure in when they are making the decision to continue industrialized production methods? To the Editor: Re “ Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind ” (Op-Ed, Feb.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

Of course you have already spotted it. There are currently 10 species of Treecreepers that form the family Certhiidae, nine in the genus Certhia and an additional oddball in another genus, Salpornis. Of course, and as usual, the UK birders are late to the party and just won’t get it. Yes, there is a bird in this picture.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in the Eastern flyway will put those 100 whooping cranes at even greater risk of being brought down by gunfire, hunter education courses and handy color brochures notwithstanding. Of course, I realize that this reintroduction is a huge undertaking and it is a complex project with many moving parts.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Of course you could bring in here the debate over the whole subspecies concept: there are over 20 of these in the Herring gull-Lesser black-backed gull complex, so. Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow. 1998), then the proper name for this species is L. But it’s a start.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 153

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

” But of course, with this slight adaptation, it also works for blog posts and their writers, and allows me to plug another nice song by this underrated artist, before switching to birds. Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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Emotional Birds Nepal Minneapolis 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There are a number of striking damselflies–the Firetails with their bright red abdomens and sometimes matching red eyes or thorax (only the males, of course); the sleek, elegant Rubyspots (nine species!); Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. the Flamboyant Flatwings (that’s the genera name!),

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Costa Rica North America Family America 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Image source.

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Compassion Humane Research Egypt 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Of course, if science is not for you, you can also look for the Spiritual Meaning of Willie Wagtail (“Unlock the amazing secrets of this spiritual symbol”) here. ” Of course, as a certified cat person, I was delighted to see a Green Catbird near Brisbane. Just please do not return to this website afterward.

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Australia Birds Mountain Goats Ducks 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are variations on that theme, of course. A recent paper in Science, Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds by Feeney, Medina, Somveille, et al, looks into this interesting possible relationship. Science (New York, N.Y.), doi:10.1126/science.1240039. Somveille, M., Heinsohn, R.,

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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Emotional Science Mammals Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Her children’s books–which include the charming Mama Build a Little Nest , other picture books, and chapter books–evince an easy familiarity with birds, their science and birding ethics. There are, of course, 52 activities, each with its own chapter, organized by season of the year. How many birds do you see?

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds Reptiles 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Of course, there should be a photo of a Plain Prinia here now, but somehow I did not get one this month). But then, of course, my conscience took over and the truth won, as it should. When Reed Parrotbill s go on family outings, they usually just climb up reeds. Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor.

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Birds Europe Science Illinois 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2022

And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. There were many other pleasures on the way to my big moment, of course. These images may not be a big deal to many of our readers. But they kind of are, down here.

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Mexico 2018 Ducks South America 216

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Location, location, location – some practical advice for River Lapwings aiming to have a family: “ River Lapwing nests on open, unvegetated river banks achieved significantly greater nesting success than those in crop fields” ( source ). Or something like that.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 137

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. At least she contributed to science… My Best Bird of the Year was a Snowy Plover , which I first spotted along the Florida Panhandle.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 183