10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. Individuals or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no formal scientific training, perform research-related tasks such as observation, measurement, or computation.

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Science North America Birds Legislation 267

Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.

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Pigs Research Ethical Treatment Afghanistan 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832).

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Egypt Birds Albania Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

” Upon close review of my photographs and some additional research, that theory makes sense to me. Brothers Anthony and Paul Hertzel, who documented the Minnesota bird, wondered if their bird could have been the offspring of a Blackpoll x Wilson’s Warbler pair.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory.

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Wayne Pacelle Louisiana Humane Society Of The United States Animal Abuse 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strikes again.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. Color markings on the legs and head are to identify individuals for research purposes).

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 269

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species. There is a well-founded preference amongst ornithologists and researchers to focus on the pressing research needs of declining native species rather than devote valuable research hours to increasing introduced species.

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Miami Parrots Research Alaska 193

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

America 250

America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

After many hours of meticulous preparation, I was ready to import my data, a process that is poorly documented to say the least. A contemptuous lack of suggested locations to match the ones submitted forced me to research literally hundreds of locations in the U.S Importing locations is even more ridiculous.

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 230

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 31, 2022

The value of external market research is well-documented and widely discussed. Companies often ignore the value of exploring internal research when diagnosing friction in their brand, messaging and go-to-market strategies.

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Research Branding 71

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D. Which would be weird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

My research in the Congo supports this idea. I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent.

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Birds Research Pets Hunters 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. territory of Puerto Rico, an American territory where researchers have numerous ongoing investigations, including many studies in El Yunque National Forest.

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Puerto Rico 2018 2017 Virgin Islands 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

With some research, I ended up with more questions than answers, making these birds all the more interesting! Between 1960 and 2002, more than 50 official documented records were recorded in Everglades National Park alone. These observations got me asking questions: what is their pattern of occurrence?

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Florida United States Texas Alligators 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. These are species which have been seen one or two or three times, but the rare sightings were unsupported by documentation.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Some Thai researchers looked at the breeding ecology of the Buff-breasted Babbler and published their findings in the somewhat unsuitable-sounding journal “Agriculture and Natural Resources”.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results. Note that I only have access to public documents, and I am not accountant. However, I can copy and paste from tax forms and read a financial statement as a layperson.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before. Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks.

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Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Kyrgyzstan 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,

Connecticut 264

Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

researchers for allegedly filing fraudulent documents and performing nearly identical experimentation in violation of federal regulations, the organization said in a news release. The animal research industry is just as unregulated as Wall Street was before the current economic crisis," said Michael A. "The

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Investigation Medical Research Groups Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Ecuador 270

Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

They're trying to get documentation regarding the 100 dogs and cats sold to the University of Utah for medical experiments. Tags: animal research.

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Utah PETA Animal Research Medical 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Birders who submit their checklists to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird likely know that their data may be used to conduct scientific research on subjects such as migration, changes in range, or assessment of populations. I emailed the authors and asked about their research and their use of eBird data.

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Oregon Washington Chad Birds 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.

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Morals Animal Humane Litter 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Although realizing that the probability of seeing a cassowary on my trip was quite low, I was not willing to admit defeat and still continued to do my research on where to see one (ebird was invaluable). I took a couple shots with my simple point-and-shoot camera to document the sighting and to keep as a memento of my good fortune.

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Guinea Meat Australia Pets 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. And the last chapter–really a self-contained section–lists every major, and some minor, islands in alphabetical order, giving names (most of the islands have at least two names, some three–official, historical/colonial, current), descriptions and landing sites.

2006 279

2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Porpoises 279

Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Her letter to the Indian research facility is pretty distressing. Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Sounds like she watched a harsh video.

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India Ethical Treatment Animal Cruelty Monkeys 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!

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Pennsylvania Breeding Sparrows Birds 258

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

Ideally a photograph is the best way to document your observation, but it is not necessary if you make clear notes on the positioning of the metal band and the flags. In the UK they lost over 50% of their Cuckoo population in 25 years and realised how little was known of their migration.

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Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. The ABA also plays a role in verifying and documenting rare bird sightings and maintaining birding records.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Matt Young (may6 at cornell.edu) at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will identify types if you send him your recordings and this will help with his ongoing research. However, the types are usually impossible to identify without recordings of their flight calls. It is rare but regular in redpoll flocks. PINE SISKIN.

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2014 2015 Alaska New Hampshire 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

His wildlife photographs have been published in birding and mountaineering magazines and his devotion to his very favorite bird family, the Albatross, have been documented in his book, Around the World for Albatrosses (2019). Otto Plantema resides in the Netherlands, is a scientist by trade (he has a Ph.D. Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279