10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

Two recent non-marine examples both include Sandhill Cranes. Rather than risk the chick’s imprinting on humans, the team cleverly thought to pair their two charges. First, an adult Sandhill Crane with a rubber gasket around his bill was brought to SeaWorld Orlando.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Due to its wide range and tendency to live close to humans, it is well known and therefore mentioned in many of Costa Rica’s folk songs, short stories and novels. The Clay-colored Thrush is the perfect example of a bird that has achieved national bird status not by being showy, huge, ferocious, or any other superlative.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

But then we get a few heroes who do everything right, who go far out of their way to help an injured wild creature, and who restore … well, maybe not our complete faith in humanity, but at least our confidence that we won’t end up in jail for the rest of our lives. Here is an example of the former type.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. For example, hunting is not permitted in most NPS wilderness areas, but it is often allowed in wilderness areas managed by the other agencies. Thus, it prohibits cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, bicycles, and motorboats, except in emergencies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

After all, no human contact need be involved. Here, and above, are a few examples from past outings, of birds that surprised me with such close encounters, that very little photo trimming was needed. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). Come as close as you like.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It has an extensive entry in the HBW (for example, there is an entry on its molt that is longer than the complete species entry for many other bird species), indicating that it probably lives in comfortable proximity to a large number of ornithologists. Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

It's the perfect example of a market being created out of nothing. I've heard this before, but it's fascinating every time it comes up. There is such a push in society to drink milk for calcium for strong bones. But really, it's not natural for us to be drinking milk past infancy. Of misinformation that is repeated so often it becomes fact.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

Most were introduced, meaning they were brought to Florida by humans. However, captive-reared mallards are being unlawfully released by humans in large numbers in Florida. It is also known for the 500 exotic species of animals and plants that now call the Sunshine State home. What Is Being Done?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the standard QWERTY keyboard is arguably inefficient and there are likely better alternatives. But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. But in 2020, perhaps the app example is more relevant than the book or museum examples.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

In fact, the family name Lanius derives from a Latin word for “butcher”, though the “butcherbird” was a butcher long before humans even developed the language to describe these activities. Who knows – perhaps early humans got the idea of cutting and hanging meat by watching these shrikes at work in their arboreal abbatoirs?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2020

Being generally more charming and attractive to us humans, birds aren’t generally included among these unwelcome hordes. In Europe, favorite foods of the waxwing include berries of the rowan and the hawthorn, which do see limited use in human cuisine and drink in products like teas, conserves, and country wines.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2021

We humans need protection from thorns, while for birds, thorns often provide protection. For example, they have to share it with the Curve-billed Thrasher up at the top of this post. In a thorn forest, as in some other situations, protection can be vital. But, the birds! This visit, I saw two.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Anyway, I hope you enjoy these pictures and get a chance, someday, to see a raven at such close range as well.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

Examples are the fairywren species and the Varied Sittella. Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. It turns out there is a word for this condition-presbycusis.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2019

The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. For example, hummingbirds must find patches where there are still flowers. For example, nectarivores (hummingbirds and Bananaquits) showed a significant drop, which was not surprising given the loss of flowers to winds. and within the 10-year range (47.7-68.2).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. ” GL: Aha.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2020

For example, almost every year my life list is impacted directly by AOS splits and renamings. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements. The examples go on and on. I doubt that would be true if I still lived in California. But, so far, the split has not occurred.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, my classic trash bird in open habitats here is the Vermilion Flycatcher. This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas. Central Mexico has, of course, its own trash birds. But it is a true Mexican native. (In

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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. In the end, we are essentially stuck in a human viewpoint.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2011

Examples of these at Tandayapa include the Buff-tailed Coronets and the Violet-ears. Purple-throated Woodstars with their erratic and elusive flight pattern are perfect examples of the little boys stealing from the big boys. There is no need for modern humans to be 6 ft 10.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. A new study , published in Nature Communications, show that Japanese Great T**s Parus minor combine their calls using specific rules to communicate important compound messages.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services. The book is written by an American for Americans using American examples but the message still rings loudly relevant to me down under.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For a discussion of the evolution of the finches and their bills, for example, one needs to look under “Darwin’s finches,” not “finches” (there is a ‘see’ reference from ‘finches’ to ‘Darwin’s finches’, but the extra step is annoying).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Here’s an example: born and bred in Europe, I do not know much about the tropics, especially the bird-rich New World tropics. This field guide leaves me nothing short of impressed. It covers everything a birder wants to know about the world, and that is poorly covered in school.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For For one example, a dispute over the old rights to a Motown dance act (of all things) is the cause of the murder at the heart of the book.). Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

Granted those birds had a very different outlook on humans than wild owls, but there were times they were stressed and a good program person can read those signs and know when to end a program when the owl needs it. I worked with education owls for over ten years, from Great Horned Owls to Saw-whet Owls (above bird).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Where predators are rare, turning more attention to feeding might produce a Darwinian benefit, for example. Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. The most famous example of this is probably the Galapagos Islands.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. Humans often use a similar concept, for example, by excluding US Supreme Court Judges from following pesky rules regarding the declaration of gifts. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The Buff-necked Woodpecker (Taman Negara, Malaysia) is classified as Near Threatened, with the usual rationale of “habitat loss” (which sounds nicer than “evil humans destroying anything that does not immediately bring in money). The lack of a red forehead makes this a female Laced Woodpecker (Singapore). (If

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2018

Co-founder and CTO The fear-mongering is everywhere; artificial intelligence will replace humans and kill jobs by automating the things that we do. It’s effective click-bait because it seems like the plot of a Hollywood action movie pitting robots against humans. Author: Steve Woods, Nudge.ai But, is it reality? At Nudge.ai

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Larks, for example. The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science.

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