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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For example, many photos are shot in poor light, obscuring the true colours. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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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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It’s not an exact science, but it’s to get an idea of general usage and to see how the habitat can be managed in a better way for migratory feeding. Here’s an example of what we see. Our job is to fly above the Mississippi River at a about 120 feet going about 100 mph and count and ID ducks.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

In short, I truly believe that there still are, maybe not plenty but a good number of species that to this day go unnoticed to the scientific eye, but are surely known to the indigenous peoples (the best example is the newly discovered giant rat from the Solomon Islands). The Cocha Antshrike was one of these species not long ago.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. As in the first part, the accounts are illustrated with many photographs, some of specific vagrant birds described in the text, some examples of species cited for their vagrant tendencies.

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JULY 15, 2024

For example, a hypothetical National Bulbul would have no chance to get any coverage here. The Eastern Buzzard is an example of how this might happen in reality ( source ). million years (which is a long time for example when watching a boring movie, but not a very long period by the generous standards of evolution).

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

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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

MAY 14, 2024

By Susan Wroble Susan Wroble is a Denver-based children’s author with a focus on science-based stories. In the eastern park on the edge of town, for example, we meet the American Robin, the Northern Cardinal, the Tufted Titmouse, and the Blue Jay. She has a lifelong love of birds, perhaps instilled at birth with her middle name—Burd.

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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. Varricchio.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Take, for example, the group of the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae – the nightjars, and nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills, and widow-chuckers. I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs.

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JUNE 17, 2014

Anyway, the most resent version is from Science, and here is the abstract: The evolution of the ratite birds has been widely attributed to vicariant speciation, driven by the Cretaceous breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. Examples here , here , and here.) That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum.

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JULY 20, 2023

Sounds a bit like some weird Nazi eugenics experiment to me, but I guess it is just science. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g., Not at the center of the river (never mind that this is just a puddle on the road).

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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. Geography, for example.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. They are excellent science writers, patiently explaining the physiological processes involved in deep diving in penguins, seals, and human.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. The second thing they did was to interfere with the genetic pathways in some chickens, which produced a chicken with beaky bits that were more like snouty bits found in, for example, a Alligator.

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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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JULY 9, 2014

And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

For example, if just 1 in 10 U.S. For example, among others, I have the 1st Edition of Sibley, the 2d Edition, both of the smaller regional versions, plus one for the car.). For example, if just 1% of birders “liked” either eBird or the ABA, that would pencil out to 10 million birders.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers Science, 330 (6006), 954-957 DOI: 10.1126/science.1193604 When we see a modern species with a handful of interesting traits that were shaped by natural selection, it is sometimes tempting to guess that all of these traits evolved together, hand in hand.

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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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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Its scientific species name traillii is a rare example of a scientist not made up by me, namely Thomas Stewart Traill (1781-1862), a Scottish doctor. Or in the language of the “science hippies” (Ze Frank ), the “purple nectar [acts] as a foraging signal” If you do not like blue, here is the Red-tailed Minla. (To

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JUNE 22, 2011

For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur. I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Some pellets are more interesting than others.

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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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OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Keep watching. And roll your pants up.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. 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.). There’s no accounting for taste.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

For example, take the Mississippi Kite (above), photographed at the Dairy Mart Ponds in Tijuana River Valley, between San Diego and the Mexican border. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Let’s get to it then.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2024

The science-based approach that recognises the dilemmas and identifies the hard choices isn’t election material, I suppose. Laguna del Gobierno is a very nice example of turning a liability into an asset. Case in point: the Spanish populists would sacrifice Doñana National Park to provide more water to strawberry farms.

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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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MAY 23, 2022

But that is science in hierarchical institutions). (Note from a grumpy ex-scientist: It is absurd that such a highly specific paper has 10 authors – it seems anybody who collected feathers, analyzed them, owned the equipment that analyzed them, or just found them pretty got on the list of authors.

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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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JANUARY 7, 2014

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. A few words about the back of the book material. I was really happy to see that there are two indexes.

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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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DECEMBER 23, 2019

For example, I’ve seen Bald Eagles in 15 states. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve only had one checklist for both Mountain Plover and Northern Goshawk , among many others. Of course, you can use the data in many ways. GPS-tracked miles.

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