Experience Experiments Investigation 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. No guarantees, but in this case the agency had already given the owner a warning and was responsive and willing to investigate complaints. Banner photo by Ingrid Taylar.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
After investigating the area between the towns of Araró and Andocutín, I soldiered on to the equally-small town of Iramuco. Both species can theoretically breed in central Mexico, but in my experience are almost exclusively winter visitors. I had already seen a few Black-polled Yellowthroats along entirely new bodies of water.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
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. Some birds were simply released, some had their “magnetic sense” (assuming they have one) scrambled, and some had their sense of smell scrambled.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
Further support for inherent behavior comes from experiments. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. In general, fish will swim to investigate anything that falls on the water hoping the object might be prey. The behavior was inherent. Photo: Peter Wilton.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2020
Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. We decided to leave the couple to sort their differences out in privacy and head into some nearby cocoa estates to see what was on offer.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor. It is also a bit misleading.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2021
And no playback is required, as it readily investigates my whistled version of its call: I whistle short, flat bursts while mouthing “tyoo, tyoo, tyoo, tyoo…” (About the question of calling in territorial birds, I know this is considered a very bad habit in heavily birded areas of North America.
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