10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow. Structurally, that long and low body, the pot-belly and the flat head.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

But while humans mainly try to stay slim and fit for health reasons, Eurasian Siskins care more about the danger of being eaten. In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. People tend to eat more food when in company. The same was shown for Eurasian Siskins ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Greg is a biological anthropologist and Africanist, who writes and teaches about Evolution, especially of humans.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

I usually restrict my unfair jokes to humans. Judging from my experience in the human world, a very predictable result. A weight loss strategy also recommended for humans. ” That seems a bit unfair to me. Most birders will understand. Yes, sometimes I have more photos that I want to show than useful information.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. Three years later, these same students were asked about their experience and both groups responded with the same level of satisfaction: a lot better than expected for the students in the shoddy dorm and a little worse for the students in the new, cool dorm.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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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. Cocker put out a call for people’s personal experiences with birds and people responded, over 600 people, most of who are credited in the Acknowledgements section. A few words about the back of the book material.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Here's a site for kids to program them to become "the next generation of laboratory animal science professionals." the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation. Experimenting on animals is fun and it helps everyone.even animals! Also, it's a great way to get girls interested in science!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

And, whether I like it or not, the much-reviled starling turned out to be one of the very first species for which I could confirm breeding in this citizen-science endeavor — and for that, I had to give them a bit more attention than usual.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. [The How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? It upsets them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Flying around in an airplane or taking a sprawling roadtrip is absolutely the exact opposite of “green” birding, but as a bird junkie, you gotta get around if you want to experience new places and new things.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. Several powerline marking experiments are in place, and hopefully a workable solution will be found for the main problem affecting this species.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2010

It will house rodents for use in experiments. The laboratory will be used to study human diseases and treatments. Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money?

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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. As someone who is skeptical of free will and the notion that the interior experience of choice implies actual choice, I largely stand aside from this part of the argument.)

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Nestled between the Huangpu River and the East China Sea, Shanghai offers a captivating blend of urban charm and natural wonders, making it a must-visit destination for birders seeking a unique and diverse avian experience. The clash of nature and urban progress creates a bizarre and sometimes frustrating experience for birdwatchers.

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Critter News

JUNE 9, 2009

Actually, I didn't quit neuroscience as a result of the experiences described, but I did quit working with animals. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. At least he admits that a better job of humane treatment could be done and that there should be a discussion about it.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2009

The fact that the concept of the timeline exists is simply an admission that human behavior is not necessarily aligned with what's in the head or in the heart. Moving people along is more art than science, and for some people it's far more emotion-based than logic-based. Because even if it is true (in a way), its grounds are immoral."

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

AI can diagnose diseases faster than human doctors. At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. At its most basic level, AI is the branch of computer science that deals with making computers behave like humans. So, what is AI?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The scientific species name stricklandii commemorates Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-1853), a British geologist, zoologist, and the coordinator of the Strickland Code, a code of nomenclature for taxonomic classification prepared by a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, first published in 1842 ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. Of the ten students, two had gone on the trip the year before and one had experience with the Sooty Terns, meaning 30% of us knew what we were doing, and 70% had zero idea. Turning to face the wind, I gently tossed the birds into the air.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In fact, it’s one of the most painful of all human experiences. The art and science of getting past no begins with self-control – and that begins with awareness. Need for significance is a core human desire and weakness. As humans, we all have an insatiable need to be accepted and feel like we matter. Significance.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet.

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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. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). More work, less fun, all because humans introduced some stupid fish into kingfisher habitat.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2020

Be a human first. It doesn’t need a long, meandering discussion about world politics, science, or global markets. In our experience training and coaching thousands of sales professionals all over the world – this is an obvious skill that is often overlooked. We recommend a balance that leads with empathy but maintains brevity.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Jarvis et al. Where do these abilities come from? See what just happened there?

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

SMM: When you talk about more purposeful meetings, are you saying we need to increase the human element and have less focus on business results? What we’re offering is another perspective and lens to look at what we’re doing and really focus on the human aspect of how people connect so they have a deeper meaning. We follow threat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. I was in primary school then, probably early grades, but I knew that whatever I do, I cannot afford to turn my back to them. How did I know that?

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