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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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2013
Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science' Thanks for your support!
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2013
If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. Do I sound facetious? I’m not. The aim of the game was to band raptors, and specifically to band Golden Eagles. Thank you, brave Starling. I salute you.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. 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.
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. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so? They fly at night and end up in places you wouldn’t expect them.”.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ). In this species (as in other jacanas), the females get by abandoning their partner after laying eggs and leaving incubation and chick-rearing to the males. Possibly also for doing the dishes. ” ( source ).
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.
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