10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2012

The Alaska Science Center has been working with chickadees for many years, attempting to solve the problem. Unfortunately, no one knows for sure, despite constant research. Although the Alaska Science Center concentrates on chickadees, they also study deformity cases in crows, nuthatches, woodpeckers, and jays.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). The story of Duncraft is a good example.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The feud between animal rights activists and researchers is among the bitterest in science. But many researchers - although adamant that animal research remains critical to finding cures and expanding medical knowledge - have come to concede that using creatures as human stand-ins is unnecessary for many procedures.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2010

million dollar research lab. And research for drug development, which means more MONEY and JOBS! It would be looking at biomedical or cellular mechanisms that are changed, for example in heart disease, and get insights into what might be a target for drug development.”.The It will house rodents for use in experiments.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. He notes that “Beginning in the 1960s, for example, conservation was dominated by non-hunters whose legacy includes key legislation such as the U.S.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

I responded to a post on animalblog that cited a recent article in the journal "Proceedings" of the National Academy of Sciences. Here's my response on medical research in general. I recently had a discussion about medical research using animals. This story on HIV research is one example.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish.

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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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Research into bird origins provides a premier example of how paleontological and neontological data can interact to reveal the complexity of major innovations, to answer key evolutionary questions, and to lead to new research directions.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction. And, that’s it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2019

First, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quantity of your leads. It offered a great example of the rhyme as reason effect : “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Second, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quality of your leads. Remember the O.J. Simpson trial? Online Bonus:?The

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research. Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers Science, 330 (6006), 954-957 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604 Fossils of a giant extinct penguin, Inkayacu paracasensis were found a while back in Peru. Salas-Gismondi, R.,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

” A group of nine researchers published a paper titled “Exploring the fecal microbiome of the Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)” Makes you wonder what they talked about during their lunch breaks. In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer.

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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. Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Beagle , pt.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

The HBW admires their nest-building capability: “observed to operate with great precision, in perfect collaboration [between the two birds]” Bronzed Drongos are good mimics with a wide repertoire of species they can imitate – the HBW gives Crested Serpent-eagle, Javan Cuckoo-shrike, and Orange-bellied Leafbird as examples.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For example, binoculars and field guides have a cost that can be measured in dollars. 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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research. Ah, the photographs!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. It is process that can be as simple or as complex as you wish, and I think this is where Birding for the Curious is unique.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be. Third, this really is an example of real life birding; it reads almost like a thriller as Lovitch and O’Brien realize they miscalculated and are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” Larks, for example. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* It is a common, for example, to say that Forster’s Tern has whitish wings and Common Tern has darker gray on the wings.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# Flight is an example. For example, in mammalian evolution, with almost no exceptions, teeth are lost and not gained across evolutionary time.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2024

A few changes happen in March – for example, many European countries and the USA switch to daylight savings time. As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. But anyway, Shanghai in March.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. A good example is the function of beauty in male birds. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. I disagree.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. That’s because the two are related. 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

In addition, many of the numbers and examples given for NYC areas beyond the Bronx represent species observed in Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. The authors say they want to “place Van Cortlandt Park’s avifauna in a New York City park perspective” (p.34).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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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. I would have liked to see far more examples of moral structures that would not look good or bad to the audience’s eyes but completely orthogonal to human morality.

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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. For example, we all know that many species had their scientific names changed with lots of familiar genera swapped out. But Nate is an eBird fanatic.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The species readily takes to nesting in small artificial boxes, and the scientists of PRBO Conservation Science have over 450 such boxes scattered across the island to monitor the species. The Cassin’s Auklets of the Farallon Islands, where I encountered the species, have been the subject of a long term study going on for decades.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time. In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult. Bird Brains Packed With Neurons.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. I don’t want some researcher a hundred years from now wondering if my single-observer White-winged Dove in Queens was real so I had to add a photo.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

These run the range from birds like Barnacle Goose and Little Egret, which are rare but do show up in North America every few years (actually, lately it’s been every year) to birds whose sightings in North America are so few that they’re legendary–Western Reef-Heron and Corn Crake are two examples. This is not unusual.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? In the author's words.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

” These comments make sense if you are familiar with the larger body of Howell’s critiques of molecular ornithological research as applied to taxonomic changes and of AOS taxonomic decisions in general. .” Species are useful handles (p. 16, below).”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ I also hope that the book serves as an example to other birders and publishing houses that there is a place and a market for state/province Big Year books. ” I wondered.

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