10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2021

Penguins would need on site-freezers or other forms of strict climate control, and who would keep the Corvids from playing tricks and getting out of control? Even if the birds could speak like humans, their instincts would still come into constant play. Ditto for the Kea. There would also be drama!

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Humans don’t share merely a similar capacity for vocal learning with hummingbirds, we share share similar brain machinery , and that brain machinery is regulated by similar genes , genes not shared by hummingbirds’ closest relatives, nor by ours.

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MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology. Princeton Univ.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 1, 2009

Not just the human kind? This episode takes a look at four very different animals; the Lemon Shark, Emperor Penguins, Red Kangaroos, and Parasitic Wasps. Want to celebrate all the mothers? Then I have a show and book for you! In the Womb: Extreme Animals is premiering just in time to celebrate Mother’s day!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

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! How do they know?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There are two invasive human commensals (a House Sparrow and a Rock Pigeon), two fully-domesticated fowl (both a rooster and a hen), one introduced gamebird (a partridge), and a penguin I didn’t identify but which seems to have been added mostly for a little wildcard variety.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2018

The latest Penguin update made it clear that Google will no longer tolerate backlinks from questionable sources that add little to no value to users. SEO professionals are so caught up in the nitty-gritty of their methods that they tend to ignore the human factor. How to Use PR to Build Quality Links.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Journeys With Penguins: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin is a different type of penguin book. Kooyman (co-author with Jim Mastro) spent decades studying Emperor Penguins and can be considered the world’s foremost expert on the species. Author Gerald L.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

This species prefers wetlands and its numbers have been decimated due to a combination of habitat destruction caused by human population growth and illegal removal of birds and eggs from the wild for the pet and zoo trade. An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

The first clue that scientists got of this was a few years ago when scientists realized that the sub-bones of Yellow-eyed Penguins, a species found in South Island and the Auckland Islands (oh, and Campbell Island), were different from what they expected. With the arrival of the Maori the secret penguin was, unfortunately, wiped out.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think. Easter Island statues by Honey Hooper.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Donna’s BBOTY – an African Penguin.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Southern Rockhopper Penguin. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

African cheaters include the African Paradise Flycatcher (Kruger Park, South Africa) … … and the African Penguin (Boulder’s Beach, South Africa) – here shown at a rock festival some distance away from the main stage, maybe a bit too close to the toilets. The actual line for the toilets.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

A description of the parenting habits of Emperor Penguins begins the lengthy chapter, “Family Matters,” about Chris’s difficult, intense relationship with his father. A trip to Nepal with a non-birding boyfriend, with the goal of climbing the Himalaya to the foot of Mt. Nah, sadly, probably not.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Aleksandar started birdwatching when he was 10, after a face-to-face encounter with an Erect-crested penguin. The whole landscape seemed like something from a Jules Verne novel with weird-looking plants and strange creatures never gazed upon by human eyes. It was a Plain-capped Ground Tyrant ( Muscisaxicola alpines ).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. placopedetes occurred since the arrival of people and presumably was due to human impact.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

White-tailed Lapwing by Jochen Roeder Duncan made a surprising choice: While the twitchers might have gone with the lost Emperor Penguin that washed up in June , my heart belongs to another. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2016

The Australian research team used drones to photograph populations of Crested Terns , Frigatebirds , and Royal Penguins. Human bird-colony counters, watch your backs—could you be someday outsourced? They then studied the images in comparison with conventionally obtained accounts of the colonies conducted at the same time.

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MARCH 25, 2015

How many copies of Sasol does one human need? You can ever touch the scale on the right hand side roughly where you think it will be (albatross and penguins at the top, woodpeckers and larks in the middle, weavers and estrilid finches at the bottom) then scroll quickly to where you want to be.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

A couple of the songs are sung, not from the human point of view, but from the bird’s – or maybe from both at the same time, as with “Bald Eagle.” Yellow-headed Blackbird, you’re an easy bird to miss. And you were my nemesis. But now you’re mine. (It It take guts to rhyme “miss” and “nemesis” – but it works!).

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JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Jackass Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Stony Point–Penguin Colony. 13 Feb 2016. 30 Aug 2016.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Jackass Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Stony Point–Penguin Colony. 13 Feb 2016. 30 Aug 2016.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month.

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