10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2014
Meanwhile, an Oregon farmer caught a beating from a neighbor irritated by his loud “bird cannons.” (Who Proving that cruelty knows no bounds, some (language unsuitable for a family blog) in Virginia Beach is shooting blow darts at birds. Who knew there was such a thing?).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? But Danielle Whittaker has.
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Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Animal rights activists stretched a 60-foot banner across the Hawthorne Bridge {Saturday} morning targeting the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2022
Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Avian science and conservation are well covered by large and well-financed national non-profits. Secondly, the ABA should increase and formalize its advocacy for birders.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Recently, two economists, Dr. Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon) and Dr. Sonja Kolstoe (Salisbury University), published a paper using eBird data. The growing wealth of citizen science data has not yet been widely exploited by economists as a source of information about recreational values of non-market environmental goods.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2017
Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. There were many weekends at the Oregon coast, and as always I was on the look out for this diminutive little shorebird.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Predictably, the states I have lived in (California and Oregon) have the most species, as does nearby Washington. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. Since virtually all of my birding to the United States, that’s the map I look at most. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5.
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