Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. Here's another experiment using mice to determine whether stress and chemicals in plastic is leading to messed up male genitals and, therefore, infertility.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Every weekend seems to be wild from the perspective of human history. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. To every bird, though, mid-September remains what it’s always been: a good time to feed, mass, and move ! What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 18, 2018

In today’s experience economy, more and more consumers prioritize doing over having. That includes all generations, not just millennials, as recent surveys indicate nearly 75 percent of consumers prefer to increase spending on experiences rather than physical possessions. Step One: Know What Motivates Your Customers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The horrors of this particular year seem to have stolen most of the joy of Halloween, if the meager stream of trick or treaters we saw this weekend were any evidence.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2023

Due to the plethora of bird species around, invariably we were to experience something breathtaking. Whether the courtship efforts of the Green Kingfisher or a showdown between Muscovy Ducks , birds continued to carry out their business unconcerned of human eyes. They all coexist harmoniously, apart from the fish perspective that is.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 5, 2019

Here at Creative Group, design thinking helped lead to the genesis of i|xperience® – our proprietary, human-centered design methodology. It centers on the participant’s entire journey and infuses all the things that make up an amazing experience: intrigue, inspiration, influence, impression, interruption and immersion.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2013

Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. Lastly, due to its previous inaccessibility to humans and the absence of natural predators, the wildlife is bizarrely unafraid of humans, allowing for a truly unforgettable experience.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

However, the typical birding experience for someone down here also includes a large menagerie of other species such as Orange-winged Parrot , Mitred Parakeet , Egyptian Goose and Nutmeg Mannikin. Their loud, descending whistles, gurgles and screeches are a common feature of parks and suburban neighborhoods in parts of Miami-Dade.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Judging by my experiences with the species, the Black-tailed Godwit’s behaviour is restricted to two aspects. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around. Aspect two is mobbing and scolding and being a complete pain in the behind the moment a human silhouette appears on the horizon.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

Far less experience the two in a single morning. Those experiences also served to illustrate a point that was enforced several times during our birding session within the forest that morning. With a reduced level of human interaction, the birds in this patch of forest seemed relaxed. Variegated Flycatcher. Now, it was different.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2014

Nearly wiped out by human heedlessness, development, and pesticide use, under the protection of the Endangered Species Act this handsome fish eagle has made a stunning comeback, rebounding in numbers and recolonizing areas where many thought they were gone forever. As an experiment, I also ran this book by a non-birding friend.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. The Humane Society wants 9 chimps that are not being "used" as part of experiments to be released to a sanctuary. Tags: chimpanzees animal research humane society chimp haven new iberia research center primates. percent of our DNA.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. But it doesn’t explain why the local habitats look like they do, or why those particular birds are characteristic of them. Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world’s major land habitats—189 in all.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

A diet of perfectly ripe cherries and escargot sounds great for humans and for a baby bird it is practically paradisaical. Food for a fledgling thrush is abundant in June with everything from ripe cherries on the trees to loads of snails crawling through the leaf litter.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

Yes, I know that birding can be turned into a social experience of sorts, but it will still always involve lots of silence and stealth. After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). I shall remain socially distanced at all times.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

Last week we talked about the human “snowbird” migration, in which thousands of northerners flock south to the Sun Belt of the United States to escape the frozen wasteland their home states and provinces will turn into from about November through March or later.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text., The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

They are sometimes chased by superstitious resident humans, believing them to be harbingers of doom or even the souls of the departed. It is one of the more commonly seen owls, based on it having a relatively high tolerance for human activity as well as its partially diurnal habits. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. Perhaps heard?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. It’s Baby Bird Week on 10,000 Birds and the adorable, fuzzy-wuzzy, itsy-bitsy, baby birdies will be everywhere! Can you handle the cuteness? Can you stand the anticipation?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. Eric DeFonso: “I think a ‘good guide’, in the most generic sense, is one who provides for a gratifying nature experience for his or her clients. A teacher.”.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe. Nature conservation is one of the core objectives of Bird Uganda Safaris.

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10,000 Birds

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Birders throughout the Americas can experience the chalenges of Gull, Tern, New World Warbler, and Tyrant Flycatcher identification. But you have to be in southwestern Mexico, where I have lived for the past 25 years, to experience the difficulties of identifying Nightingale-Thrushes, which make up one part of the Thrush genus Catharus.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

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. Invariably it doesn’t take long and we find what I had already heard.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s human nature: Once we think we know what we’re looking at, we mentally fill in the gaps and move on to the next thing. . “Sometimes, birders become lazy observers,” writes John Muir Law for the National Audubon Society (note: I work for Audubon Florida). Who knows why we do the things we do.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites. In an elaborate experiment, adult Sheawaters were take away from their nests during nesting season and given a series of treatments, and released hundreds of kilometers away.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We humans, being the environmental cue-driven, chronologically constrained creatures that we are, look out a frost-rimed window at a wasteland of ice and snow and think, “I cannot WAIT for winter to end.” If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2013

From Owls in the Family to Wesley the Owl , the narrative in which a human interacts with another species and learns a bit about life along the way has long been a popular and affecting one. This is a pretty good model of the modern environmental ethic of self-restraint and respectful watching.

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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. They explained that Japanese Great T**s “experience a number of threats, and in response to predators, they give a variety of different calls.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2012

This was an amazing experience which confirmed the continued destruction of the forest caused by the insatiable expansionism of humans. My first birding trip outside Ecuador was fantastic and added nearly 200 new birds to my list. My wife and I spent two weeks in Brazil birding the Atlantic Forest and The Pantanal.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.

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