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AVMA News
JULY 16, 2024
On June 23, Steven Feldman, president of the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), moderated the session “International Steering Group on Pets and Housing Issues” at AVMA Convention 2024, held June 21-25 in Austin, Texas.
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AVMA News
MARCH 21, 2023
The AVMA offered sessions at the 2023 WVC Annual Conference as part of a year-old partnership with Viticus Group, the organization that hosts WVC.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2020
Birders who submit their checklists to eBird likely know that their data may be used to conduct research on avian migration, range, or population. It has also been used by researchers from other fields, such as economists. I emailed the Dr. Lopez and asked about this research and the use of eBird data.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Although parrots are generally assumed to have complex social groups, few studies have quantitatively examined these assumptions about parrot social structure. We critically assessed 4 assumptions about parrot socioecology using data from captive and wild groups of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus). but not steep (,0.1).
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
.” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds. … …The phylogeny of birds has been one of the most challenging vertebrate groups to decipher.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2014
But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. A group of researchers at the N.C. I’ve got a call in with the research team.
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SalesFuel
JUNE 16, 2024
Scouller emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between genuine teams and performance groups, particularly at the senior management level. The Concept of Pseudo Teams Pseudo teams are work groups that aspire to be teams but lack a clear goal and focus on unanimity.
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AVMA News
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Several new studies were unveiled at @the_NAVC Veterinary Meeting & Expo this January in Orlando, Florida, including research identifying 30 different bacterial groups in the fecal microbiome of domestic cats and a survey on dog owners’ awareness of osteoarthritis.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2015
The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5% So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5%
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2015
That impressive number is a testament to the exponential advances in DNA-sequencing technology, but the researchers are quick to note it’s still less than 1% of the total genome.). Whereas previous genetic analyses of redpolls looked at just 11 regions of the genome (at most), Mason and Taylor examined 235,000 regions.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2015
A new paper out this month attempts to paint the most comprehensive picture yet of the origins and diversification of the American sparrows, wood-warblers, blackbirds, cardinals, tanagers, and their kin, an enormous group of birds more than 800 species strong. The paper is by leading researchers F. Keith Barker, Kevin J.
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MAY 24, 2017
I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). The impressive trail network makes the ecosystem accessible not only to birders and walkers, but also school groups of all ages and sizes. “What’s that?”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach? That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. Their goal?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
That’s what a group of French scientists recently examined— how birds react to drones , those remote-control robots increasingly flocking to our skies. The scientists hope this research will help guide ethical drone use around birds. After all, getting a true bird’s-eye view of avians affords all kinds of new research opportunities.)
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10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
Within species, or closely related groups of species, beaks vary by small amounts that result in important adaptive fine tuning, as we see in the Grand’s studies of the Galapagos Finches; Beak related behavior is at the cutting edge of survival for many bird species. See: Four Wings Good Two Wings Better? So how did beaks evolve?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2014
Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month when bird researchers from several nations announced that the species formerly known as Spotted Wren-Babbler ( Spelaeornis formosus ) — a tiny, secretive bird of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas to southeast China — is not a Spelaeornis wren-babbler at all.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all. Winter plumage makes things a bit more difficult, but the difference is rather obvious.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
There is also a research institute dedicated to wilderness: the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute is an interagency facility located at the University of Montana. It is the only federal research group dedicated to studies needed to manage the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
It seems some Chinese researchers had an interesting hypothesis – maybe cleaning up a nest (“nest sanitation” to the ornithologists) would also make it easier for the parasitized bird to eject an egg laid by a parasitizing cuckoo. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. stresses the importance of order.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2011
The family group pictured below has been visiting my yard recently. You can see two adult males, one in the middle and one on the right side of the screen and an adult female running up to the foraging group from the cover at the edge of the yard. www.youtube.com/watch?
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2011
In my public speaking to various birding groups over the years, I have been trying to get birders to take more responsibility for the place we find ourselves. Money will spill over to sponsor research projects, money to support nature centers, money to fund education. However, I reacted totally differently. Advertisers will notice.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. Individuals or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no formal scientific training, perform research-related tasks such as observation, measurement, or computation.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2020
But as I started to research this post, I was reminded that I actually live in the center of this Warbler’s range. I almost always see the Rufous-crowned Warbler in groups of two or three. Like the Common Yellowthroat , the Yellow Warbler breeds no further south than the central Mexican highlands. swee swee-swee-swee-sweeziweet.
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OCTOBER 13, 2016
Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.). Not at all.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). And that is what recommends Steve N. Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS.
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Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 29, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. Sales are still happening, but a group celebration isn’t likely. Incentives interrupted.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Ringer Suh et al.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Specifically, the plight of the Rusty Blackbird , which has experienced the sharpest rate of decline among North American landbirds, according to the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group (IRBWG), and has a conservation status of Vulnerable. From March 1 through mid-June, birders in the Rusty’s range (38 U.S.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? From 1923 to 1948 Chapin served as associate curator of ornithology in the AMNH.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2022
Fortunately, local researchers have been well aware of the dire need to learn about this species so it can be adequately protected. Past Birdathons organized by Paz and Ernesto have greatly helped research on migratory behavior of Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers as well as field work with the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow.
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AUGUST 19, 2014
I want to talk about this research but if you really want to know more about it, don’t rely on me; one of the co-authors of this important paper is Darren Naish, who happens to be a stupendous blogger, and he has written the research up here. So go read that for sure, and revel in the excellent graphics. As Lee Et.Al
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2014
For one thing, as other studies have recently found, New World sparrows belong in their own family, Passerellidae; they are not closely related to Old World Emberiza buntings (see John Boyd’s treatment of the groups ). A new paper by Keith Barker furthers our understanding of relationships among several passerine groups.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2014
Unlike Desi, the researchers involved don’t think the owls are curling up in a nice warm bed in a hut in the woods, but they don’t have much better answers than that, at least not yet. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected.
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JULY 14, 2011
convergent aquatic adaptations of loons and grebes on the morphological side and certain molecular sequences on the DNA side) and that by synthesizing all available information, we can both achieve greater confidence in hypothesized relationships and expose areas needing further research. Mayr names an assemblage of waterbirds Aequornithes.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
In fact, the two groups appear to belong near parrots and passerines, which are now thought to be sister clades. But what no major checklist has yet done (to my knowledge) is to take the next step and rearrange the order in which these groups of birds are presented. Some of this should sound familiar.
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OCTOBER 19, 2016
New research in Current Biology suggests that concentrating efforts on saving the remaining four large populations of the Florida Scrub-Jay isn’t all that’s needed. It turns out that smaller, scattered “satellite” groups of the bird are a source of needed genetic diversity when individuals leave the satellites and join the main populations.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.
264 10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
When I read somewhere that Pygmy Geese were not actually geese at all I started doing some research. For these birds, the smallest of all waterfowl, belong to the “perching duck” group. I discovered that there are actually a fair number of ducks and other waterfowl that are wrongly called geese.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strikes again.
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APRIL 19, 2016
For day 2 of the conference, we headed out to the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve to look at some in-progress projects. After leaving the group, I pulled into a boat launch with a great view of a marshy, mud flat area near the beach. Luckily for me, there was time afterwards for a little birding.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2021
For example, the panel (see below) included three members of the pro-change Bird Names for Birds group (more representation than the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and the U.S. Was there confusion that impacted data collection or research or birding? Is ornithology more inclusive? Did the process work?)
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