10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. 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. This sounds – and is – dark. They don’t, and I know it.

Goats

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service.

2013

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2013

To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Winter has come early and often to Western NY. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

2013

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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.

Science

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species. They are currently running their Second-Annual Banded Pelican Contest. So as Arnold would say, “Do it!

Bird Rescue

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. One could say that knowing the science of birds can make the birds more interesting. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com.

Science

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

The famous bird experts, Thorogood and Davies, carried out an experiment which… reveal that social learning is specific to the cuckoo morph that neighbors mob. Our results suggest that selection for mimicry and polymorphisms comes not only from personal experience but also from social learning.

Hungary

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group. … Conservation Audubon endangered species Extinction Week longspurs science' That’s one of my photos above. And get angry and take action.

Species

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

In my experience, most salespeople come to the table with a range of skills and characteristics that enable them to be successful in their jobs. When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it. The Value of Predictive Analytics.

Science

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2019

First, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quantity of your leads. Allow your prospect to focus on their experience at this moment and delay the pain of paying until later. Second, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quality of your leads. Get started for free! We’ll get it right.”.

Science

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen. Experiments had been done which involved strapping magnets to the heads of homing pigeons to see if you could confuse them. I was also eventually to learn that Efe do not have an uncanny built in sense of direction.

Compassion

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.

Science

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? .

Wildlife Rehabilitation

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). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

America

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Donna]: Danielle Whittaker takes a personal viewpoint of a very different aspect of ornithology in The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent , a perfect blend of science and autobiography. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. Both species can theoretically breed in central Mexico, but in my experience are almost exclusively winter visitors. But obsessed I am. And it brought friends.

Mexico

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

Compassion

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). Apparently, the dark color of the plant nectar attracts the bird, as shown by controlled experiments.

Nepal

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. That article left an impression and I have wondered what became of Manker’s effort to create a high school ornithology curriculum.

2018

10,000 Birds

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.,

Birds

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. Lovitch takes the practice of birding ten steps beyond. I would like to add Badbirdz Reloaded , a companion site on Florida migration, run by Angel and Mariel Abreu.

New Jersey

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

I had just completed the southern circuit of the country, connecting with many fabulous species, experiences, and places of the region — lekking Long-wattled Umbrellabird , the magnificent Ceiba trees and Tumbesian endemics of Jorupe Preserve, more than a dozen antpittas (including the famous Jocotoco Antpitta ), and more.

California Condor

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird. Remember the blog carnival craze? As a result, I’ll be pulling the plug on the Nature Blog Network and taking the whole thing down.

2003

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Don’t say you weren’t warned!

Mammals

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. 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.* I like Birding by Impression.

New Jersey

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.

New Jersey

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

But I suspect that my citizen-science monitoring outweighs any damage done with this practice here, especially since I am the only one birding most of my sites, and can only visit each one for a few hours every two or three months. If this one were Elegant , that white of the eyering would extend in an arc down toward the neck.

Mexico

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Many datasets were compiled directly from citizen science efforts, including Christmas bird counts! On 10000 Birds, I usually write about my love of searching for avian friends in local hotspots or novel ecosystems.

Florida

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How much do birders value a birding experience? But there are few transactions that can be analyzed to determine how much value birding experiences, themselves, provide to a birder. This includes bird-watching experiences. Some aspects of birding can be calculated and studied economists. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

Oregon

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!

Medical Research

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. I started eBirding about the same time I started birding, and I made an early executive decision (a very good one) that any pre-eBird observations simply did not count.

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I have to admit that I abstained from the CBC this year, prizing personal comfort over citizen science. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did you partake in any Christmas Bird Count excitement this weekend? Sign me up for a Memorial Day Bird Count any year!

2017

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 8, 2011

In an industry first, Hill’s Science Diet Weight Loss System offers pre-packaged meals for your dog! We think this is a great idea from a company that we have had great experiences with. Not only is it good for your pet to be at a healthy weight, but you can even enter for a chance to win $1,000,000!!

Hamburgers

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.

RSPCA

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more.

North Carolina

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

” So if any of you birders have a science background and are looking for something to do, please move to eastern California and sort this out for us. This coastal jay was photographed at Ano Nuevo State Park, CA. Fox Sparrow : The thought of splitting Fox Sparrow has been around for many years. Birds I Am Birder splitting taxonomy'

San Francisco

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. In fact, experience proved that the process is actually way more cumbersome and time-consuming than it should be.

Arizona