10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Knowing that female birds sing presents a challenge to signaling theory, in which it’s assumed that male songbirds send the signal and female songbirds receive it. Bird communication is much broader than just vocalization, something I tend to forget. And, that’s it.

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North America Research Birds America 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. There is a bit of science news. The Izu scincid lizards (Plestiodon latiscutatus) that inhabit the four Japanese Izu Islands with only bird predators are drab brown, mature later, lay small clutches of large eggs, and hatch large neonates.

Bald Eagle 178

Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines Apes 178

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs. According to the program guide, nearly half of the presenters were students. Emptied of their contents, of course.).

San Diego 174

San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. The only exception is the Conservation section, which presents keys for the conservation icons.

North America 278

North America America California Condor Birds 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It turns out that there are new things that can be learned about extinct birds, and that even if the conclusion is obvious–the bird is gone, there is no time machine and we can’t change that–the way in which it is presented can differ as well. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? They are from a series called Aviary.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

Delaware 178

Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. At present there may be three reasonable hypotheses to explain this. Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers Science, 330 (6006), 954-957 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604 Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A.,

Penguins 190

Penguins Seals Peru Leopards 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Technology to the rescue! Speaking of back-of-the-book materials, there is no bibliography.

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2024

For the next 11 weeks they are present more or less constantly, and its unusual to scan the sky and not see (and hear) at least a couple of birds, and often many more. 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. A July congregation.

Liberia 209

Liberia Africa Mozambique Breeding 209

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. Moreover at present I see no moral objection to eating the flesh of free range cattle, which seem to me to have a happy life which they would not have at all if they were not destined to be eaten. But this is a digression and I must return to my main theme. (

Morals 40

Morals Whales Whaling Chickens 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject. There is a lot of science here to explain. Like birds.

Mongolia 181

Mongolia Reptiles Science Indiana 181

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. In contrast, the Common Terns present look much more elegant. The birding life.

Uganda 212

Uganda Birds Rats Breeding 212

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. Genera accounts–descriptions of each genus–are similar in style to the family descriptions. Geological Survey.

Turtles 194

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” 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.

Australia 224

Australia Birds Mountain Goats Ducks 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

Owls 207

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

To describe his life as one filled with achievement is a major understatement, and what I present is a brief summary. In the case of the Black Robins this involved cross-fostering eggs and chicks in the nests of Chatham Tomtits and Chatham Warblers , a complicated task that quickly boosted numbers of birds once it began.

Species 224

Species New Zealand Rats Seychelles 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

Mammals 230

Mammals Birds Cooking Fish 230

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. The entry on eBird (number 89) cites its citizen science basis as looking “very much like the future for online bird recording”, but then veers into a description of BirdTrack, the British database, rather than discussing the financial sustainability of the Cornell project. Road signs!

Mauritius 172

Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 172