10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2024

By Susan Wroble Susan Wroble is a Denver-based children’s author with a focus on science-based stories. The book’s structure is brilliant—Kroodsma divides the book into two sections: a dawn walk in Eastern North America, and a second walk in Western North America.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. ” Crows are smart.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

The Terra Project is an exciting collaboration between bird guide author Scott Whittle , wildlife tracker manufacturer CTT , and non-profit Conservation Science Global. Terra sounds like that dream device. ” Wow, right? But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

Fortunately for you, though, when I got home I found a review copy of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America by Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess ready and waiting to be dissected for your delectation. The target audience of this book is not the jet-setting hardcore birder, or even the dedicated local lister.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2024

In what might nowadays be regarded as a slightly weird scientific practice, after meeting naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, he married Messerschmidt’s widow after his death and got notes from Messerschmidt’s Siberia travels from her that had not been handed over to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

What are the best field guides for birds in North America? Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2016

Why, I asked myself, did the loons come to be called loons in the English-speaking regions of North America when they were already known by the much more practical term divers back in the colonists’ mother country? Long ago, before I became the bird-name rancoteur I am today, I had an idle question.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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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). Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The report itself is a few dozen pages long, and describes how “North America’s birds may respond to future climate change” using citizen science data. Audubon’s Conservation Science team has generated three data products. Audubon’s Conservation Science team has generated three data products.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ Marybeth and Lynn chase birds familiar and unfamiliar to me, a Northeastern birder, and I’m sure it will be the same for any reader in North America.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2021

And no playback is required, as it readily investigates my whistled version of its call: I whistle short, flat bursts while mouthing “tyoo, tyoo, tyoo, tyoo…” (About the question of calling in territorial birds, I know this is considered a very bad habit in heavily birded areas of North America.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Lab operates All About Birds , which has free and authoritative information on identification and bird biology, as well as Birds of North America. My impression is that most young birders are eBirders, a trend that will surely continue due to its convenience, accessibility, and contribution to science.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

However, at least one source reported that way back in 2002, there were approximately 700,000 copies in print of the Sibley Guide to Birds and 250,000 of Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America. million copies in print of all seven editions of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now. With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation that U.S. Enter the woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

Bluebird Man is about Alfred Larson, but you can be one of the film’s heroes by contributing to its production… There is something special about bluebirds, and it isn’t just because the world’s three species are only found in North America. There is something more.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. He received a B.A. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While not in New Guinea and the tropical Pacific, he helped establish natural history-based undergraduate student programs that integrate indigenous communities with wildlands conservation in threatened landscapes of western North America and Central America.” Science doesn’t work that way! Science Schmience.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Kittlitz’s Murrelet at least is named after an actual naturalist, Heinrich von Kittlitz, who bummed around the Pacific on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg. Likewise the Xantus’s Murrelet , named for John Xantus de Vesey, a Hungarian exile who discovered a number of birds in western North America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

Everybody knows sparrows, except for the fact that most people don’t know anything about sparrows.Kim Todd sets out to rectify this in a small, elegant book that covers both House Sparrows , the Passer tribe, and the other birds colloquially called sparrows throughout the world (albeit she concentrates most on North America and Britain.)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

However, articulated in a short introductory chapter, they shortchange the ornithological community and science in general. Species are useful handles (p. ” Furthermore, the American Ornithological Society is defined as “a club of ornithologists, and like many clubs it has various committees (p.16, 16, below).”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scientists all over the world are sounding the alarm about ecological disruptions already in motion, and birders in North America are already seeing changes in the distribution of species, from the 61 percent of bird species wintering farther north to expanding ranges of birds like Mississippi Kite and Great-tailed Grackle. .

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull. (p.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

The Latin species name of the Common Greenshank , nebularia , sounds a bit like a science fiction novel to me – however, it means “misty” and apparently is derived from the birds’ misty, marshy habitat (HBW). Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Though it was well-known to the Native American populations that shared its space, the black-footed ferret was overlooked by Lewis and Clark and all subsequent Euro-American expeditions, remaining officially unknown to science until John James Audubon, his sons, and the Rev.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. I had just started reading it, but I knew that this was the book my birding friends, in fact all North American birders who are fascinated by vagrants, have been waiting for.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

So, along with Lee, we created a test scenario and recruited 500 people across North America and Europe to imagine themselves in a service failure situation. In other words, there’s no proven way to say “I’m sorry” in order to evoke the Service Recovery Paradox.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. They’re easy to see at the entrance to the Cape Canaveral Seashore.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound. Yes, there is a bird in this picture. Of course you have already spotted it.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Even worse, such sobriquets obscure insight into the birds themselves. ” Only later did someone else dub the jaunty yellow bird Wilson’s Warbler.

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