10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

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). And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers. Birds and People is an exceptional book.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2016

Speaking of North America, it’s worth noting here that Reedman repeats the same story that I incautiously did about the Limpkin’s name and its gait ; while fascinating, this book is not extensively documented, and probably cannot be taken as the absolute final word on the more controversial etymologies.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. After many hours of meticulous preparation, I was ready to import my data, a process that is poorly documented to say the least. But Nate is an eBird fanatic.

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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

MARCH 21, 2012

In addition to ol’ split tail there were a host of other birds around, and the joy of birding with the Science Chimp, as Julie is sometimes called, is that she notices and appreciates behaviors that a less attentive birder might have missed.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This is by no means an exact science. Now that I am aware of the fall migration in the most popular social networks, I am curious to see if the spring migration will be equally documented by bird enthusiasts along South American countries. Black-throated Blue Warbler. Broad-winged Hawk. Birds migration'

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. The focus is on learning by doing, with 12 Activity sections integrated within the eleven (ten plus a “bonus”) chapters.

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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. Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. According to the U.S.

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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. This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. . Conclusion.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 250

Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It It broke my heart to see the suffering that is documented in the enclosed video", wrote Anderson, in a letter sent on behalf of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

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India Ethical Treatment Animal Cruelty Monkeys 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document. And perhaps, too, they would be least interesting to Peterson’s intended audience.

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Morals Animal Humane Litter 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. The growing wealth of citizen science data has not yet been widely exploited by economists as a source of information about recreational values of non-market environmental goods.

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Oregon Washington Chad Birds 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Photos in the Species Accounts are documented with photographer’s name and place where the photo was taken (an important fact given some species’ nomadic or irruptive tendencies); additional credits are given in the Acknowledgments.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

However, articulated in a short introductory chapter, they shortchange the ornithological community and science in general. Species are useful handles (p. ” Furthermore, the American Ornithological Society is defined as “a club of ornithologists, and like many clubs it has various committees (p.16, 16, below).”

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North America Birds 2012 America 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. Local birdwatching groups play a crucial role in monitoring populations, documenting sightings, and advocating for conservation measures.

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China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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North America Birds Prairie Dogs Barn Owls 138

Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

For sleuthing on animal experimentation, you will want to visit a library with good science holdings. FOIA allows you access to information on federally funded animal research projects and to documents of various departments of the federal government, including the U.S. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb.

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Animal Animal Research Medical Research Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. All we need is a PUP book on bird documentation, which will hopefully include sketching and notes as well as Everything You Can Do with eBird.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

The Service Recovery Paradox has been well documented in consumer settings, but only recently validated for the B2B environment. Turns out, the inevitable customer crisis can become one of your best opportunities to deepen customer commitment?—?if if you handle the failure properly. The importance of a good apology.

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Emotional North America Research 2018 93

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Think about it–how do you document the behavior of birds that spend years flying (or swimming) and feeding and, apparently, sleeping above or within the deep sea? Naturalists who love science and want a quick way of reading all the seabird articles in Condor , Marine Biology, and Seabird Conference proceedings. Who is it for?

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 127

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This requires a common framework for engaging the most crucial commercial moments, and, most importantly, raising the bar on documenting business impact. Tim Riesterer is chief strategy and research officer at Corporate Visions , a provider of science-backed marketing and sales training programs and consulting services for B2B companies.

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Sharks Raised Research Adoptable 79

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Science backs this up too, with studies showing that people don’t differentiate who they’re talking to on messaging channels, thus communicating as easily with businesses as they do with friends when interacting using messaging. . This perpetuity enables personalization like customers have never experienced before. Quick Response.

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Branding Science Research Experience 48

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Science Iraq Oregon Charlotte 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. The transition from ground-living to flight-capable theropod dinosaurs now probably represents one of the best-documented major evolutionary transitions in life history. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Another paper recently published in Forest Ecology and Management documented that EAB predators’ behavior matches their growing numbers. If there is one silver lining to all of this gloomy news, it’s that the efforts of birders truly make a difference in helping to advance science.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Chicago Kentucky 273

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Exotic and mysterious — its nest wasn’t documented for science until the 1930s — but still, a sparrow. It occupies a strange space where ecology and birding do not precisely overlap — not rare, but rare for most of us to see. Of Least Concern, but worth stirring up a hotline or list serv over.

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Sparrows Breeders Science Canada 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. . This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Another big year memoir?

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

And one of the things you do is to study old documents, and you have this old book, this very very old book, that chronicles the life and times of some historic people in some historic period, but you don’t know exactly when it is from or where it was written. Imagine you study history.

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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. She’s written a series of nature activity books, and I Love Birds!: © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal. I Love Birds!:

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

New species that were documented from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 are listed in one of the appendices. He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. So, no, this book does not include the Rufous-necked Wood-Rail of Bosque del Apache fame.

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North America America Birds United States 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

” There is also a Glossary, mostly of anatomical parts; A Bibliography of sources; a list of useful Websites–citizen science programs like iNaturalist that contain records of Costa Rican odonates; a listing of Photo Credits; and an “Index to Species and Families” (but not genera).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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New York City Illinois Science Killing 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It is much more common in easily accessible areas, leading to a much longer HBW entry (the “looking for the keys in the area with the best light” joke again, if you know what I mean). For morning and evening work we were compelled to use only the lawn and backyard premises of the household.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.”

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