10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies. The petition relied on a genetic and ecological analysis by Dr. Robert Zink, a biologist at the University of Nebraska (the “ Zink study ”).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2016
To be fair, he was slightly better positioned to do so, being a professor of biological sciences with the University of Nebraska. While I was becoming a dour and mistrustful child perfectly primed for the advent of Trent Reznor, though, Dr. Paul A. Johnsgard was actually doing something about it.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2012
Government to set up several forts, including Fort Mitchell in western Nebraska. , Kestrel , Northern Harrier , Great Blue Heron , and Wild Turkey. Scotts Bluff National Monument, NE – During the War, Native American raids prompted the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2022
Bonus note for science nerds (not related specifically to birds): Whenever Chinese researchers give percentages, they do so up to two digits behind the decimal – thus the exact percentages in the HBW citation above. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. photo by Cyndi Routledge He called the Platte wetlands restoration project “a crown jewel for Nebraska.” Here’s the petition.
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