10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. Or more specifically—what valuable information would be unique to this discovery when other samples already exist for study?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
These are a small sampling of the birds possible while birding in place on Poas. Keep watching and more will appear, maybe a flock of high flying Barred Parakeets , maybe even the hidden bird hunter of the dark woods, the Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Let me tell you this: They are. And for rodents and reptiles as well.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2021
In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. But in the absence of Efe Pygmy hunters, we ran into ground mammals much more frequently, and not because we were doing a better job of sneaking around.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
The newsletter, full of progress summaries, instructions, profiles of volunteers, and recruitment appeals to students, hunters, fisherman, and pretty much anyone who did anything outdoors in the state, gives a sense of the collective energy that went into the Atlas and the community that they created.
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