10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. So, for example, humans are apes. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. Proposed solutions include creating glass with images that reflect ultraviolet light (which many birds can see but humans can’t), or that features dots or stripes barely visible to the human eye.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

Rather than risk the chick’s imprinting on humans, the team cleverly thought to pair their two charges. SeaWorld vets removed the gasket, and happened to rescue, during the bird’s rehabilitation, a newly hatched Sandhill chick.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

What if, in turn, the discovery that the species was not truly extinct held the key to saving humanity from another, even more devestating flu outbreak? This is a book that people come to for the plot and the science. I’m ok with fantasy, but not with pseudo-science. But what of that?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. 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.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Greg is a biological anthropologist and Africanist, who writes and teaches about Evolution, especially of humans. One could say that knowing the science of birds can make the birds more interesting. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com. Greg’s beat is Bird Evolutionary Biology.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

It also has one of the highest human population densities in the state. Not surprisingly, this brings Burrowing Owls into close contact with humans across the county. Loss of habitat due to development, disturbance at burrows and negative interactions with humans are some of the threats facing this charismatic species.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think about science reporting on this vast Internet of ours. When you receive a link to an article in the Daily Mail , for instance, your thoughts do not immediately leap to “my god, a ground-breaking, perhaps even mind-blowing advance in the study of avian tool use!”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., D’Alba, L., Vinther, J.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

And can I point out how weird it is to see the word “weapon” applied to wildlife sciences. And the weapons don’t stop there. Here are some modified guns to get birds to move on: Let’s say that you don’t want to capture wildlife but encourage it to go elsewhere.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

Perhaps it is the striking beauty of these brilliant blue birds, or perhaps it is the unique human connection we have developed with them through the monitoring of nest boxes. There is something more. I’ve set out to explore these ideas and more in a new documentary film about bluebirds entitled Bluebird Man.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

This is what science tells us about sunspots, but you know … science tells sells us lots of things. Taking into consideration the average life span of a human (80 years, more or less) and applying the same to the sun’s life span, the End of Days will be upon us sometime in the year 50,011.

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10,000 Birds

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

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Long ago I preached the idea that rapid climate change was more important (in a negaive way) than large climate change, and suggested that the Holocene was different from earlier time periods (and thus, for instance, humans invented agriculture and large areas of forest developed, etc.) because the Holocene had little rapid climate change.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It’s human nature to choose something that doesn’t align with our desires. In other words, part of the human condition includes the inability to identify what will make us happy and therefore what motivates us. You can register for a free webinar by Tim in which he will expand on the science of workplace motivation. Zoltners, A.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

There is a bit of science news. At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard. But there were a gazillion of them. Birds Bird evolution character displacement conservation biology mumeration'

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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. Plus the sibia apparently plays an important role in the pollination of one endangered rhododendron species ( source ).

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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. Apologies in advance for the ridiculous amount of yawns that reading this post will engender. Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above, photographed by Corey.) Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

It comprised eight short talks on subjects ranging from investigations into the genetics of magnetic receptors for navigation, to the use of eBird and other “citizen science” crowdsourcing efforts in studying migrant phenology. ” Fascinating stuff, with real conservation implications.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale. Or duck?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Granted, it’s not always on a scale we can readily appreciate, and we humans are much more attuned to the differences in each other because that’s how we recognize friends, family, and celebrities on the street, but when a bird is even slightly different from the norm, it’s generally the more expected species than the unexpected.

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SalesFuel

JULY 18, 2024

In modern selling, with the fusion of technology and humanity a certain balanced integration is essential. Consequently, the right questions posed at the optimal time can capture the human essence of connection, empathy and trust. Likewise, a keen EQ will help you comprehend the buyer’s emotions and motivations.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. According to the HBW entry for this species, it “has been claimed that loss of native mammals after European settlement created shortage of nesting material, explaining this species’ penchant for taking hair from humans.”

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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. I would have liked to see far more examples of moral structures that would not look good or bad to the audience’s eyes but completely orthogonal to human morality.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

If you’re feeling particularly science-y, the full paper is here.). This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (If

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

I’ve been sciencing really hard lately. It’s not an exact science, but after a few weeks you get the idea of who is just hanging out on the local thermals and who is actually going north. I always appreciated when the Mississippi Kites stooped to the level of us lowly humans. But I digress.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. Now why should this be?

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. One of the issues raised by a member was that we need to listen to "science" more and that science will save us. Science does not solve everything.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For There’s no accounting for taste.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

It is a surprisingly difficult question for science to address, but it can say this. The same evolutionary pressures that drove humans to evolve the capacity for love have had their way with the albatrosses. In Julie’s column this week she addressed the question of whether birds feel love.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Some scientists say it could end in a generation if we pursue the creation of "virtual humans" and living cell banks as research replacements. Tags: animal experimentation animal research medical research science. I just don't understand why.

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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. Foraging Geladas in their typical crouched feeding position.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants.

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