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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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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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Big Years in 2013

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Ali Iyoob is looking to break the North Carolina Big Year record of 351 this year. Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. Also, big year blogs are one of my favorite types of blog to read. Follow along at NC Big Year ’13.

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2013 Big Year Update

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Ali Iyoob is sitting pretty at 230 species in his North Carolina big year during which he is trying to break the state record of 351. He better watch out though, because another birder in North Carolina also has reported 230 species so far this year! As of the end of March they had already reached a whopping 652 species

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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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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.