Haiwaiian Honeycreeper Family Tree
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2011
The honeycreepers of Hawaii now have a family tree, with researchers from the Smithsonian having used DNA to map the entire family. Good news for an endangered family of birds!
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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They were simply sent to Family Court. Biologist Lindsay Young says it will take 8 years to replace the breeding birds; 14 years of research and data have been destroyed. Gutierrez was 18.
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The Science of Motivation
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NOVEMBER 22, 2017
We spend time daydreaming about things that are important to us — like upcoming vacations with friends and family. He offered two rewards for consideration: (A) $5,000 in cash or (B) a trip to Hawaii (of equal value to the cash). There will be no regrets and no family fights over what to spend the cash on.
“Shaking up IPAs” – Rhinegeist Brewery and Green Cheek Beer Company: Ain’t No Tang
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Birders have a natural tendency to appreciate variety in form, from the bewildering range of colors displayed within a single avian family, to minute distinctions between otherwise similar birds wholly inscrutable to the untrained eye (or even to those of many birders!). Birders are generally happy when this happens.
Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies.
National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The rest of Mexico is not included, nor is Hawaii (which isn’t in North America, after all, but has been accepted as part of the American Birding Association area). Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. ” These are all great.
The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Now that Hawaii is in the ABA Area , the next additions should be Puerto Rico and the U.S. The Hawaii vote made it clear that that the ABA Area is about political borders, not geographical or ecological ones, and the two Caribbean territories have long been part of the United States. But even with Hawaii, there are many U.S.
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