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NC State, Purdue professors to join National Academy of Inventors

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Kenneth Adler, PhD, professor of cell biology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, and Masanobu Yamamoto, adjunct professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, will be inducted as fellows of the National Academy of (..)

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

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Three Interesting Things

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And third, related to next week’s post, there is an interesting project being started in North Carolina in which little monitoring devices are being attached to cats to see what they do when running around wild. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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Junco Mashup

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Identification of abnormal birds such as this one is not an exact science, but this one seems to break down as one half White-throated Sparrow and one half Dark-eyed Junco. It should be enough to send birders to their feeding stations and hedgerows to look for these unusual birds, because they’re out there.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina. Nate Swick is a contributor to 10,000 Birds, American Birding Association (ABA) blog editor and event leader, and environmental educator.

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How to Bust a BBS

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a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. My route is full of this I, of course, cannot be made to take the blame for either of these unfortunate “incidences” For the first, I blame the North Carolina Department of Transportation. I mean, really.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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” 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. Bird communication is much broader than just vocalization, something I tend to forget.