10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2017
He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. If I’m not mistaken, it took more than twenty years for Ridgely’s Guide to the Birds of Panama to come out in a Spanish edition. Good question and kind of hard to swallow.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
It was the adventure of a lifetime, made even more exciting by a travel route that went through Panama and Mexico, where Ridgway was exposed to Neotropical birds, a passion that informed his later work. The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2013
A typical Neotropical bird – a Royal Flycatcher caught on a scouting trip in Panama. As it turns out, there is a great system in Panama for studying the genetics of color. Two species, White- and Golden-, form a hybrid zone where their ranges meet in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science'
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The first time I saw one (in Panama, I admit) I didn’t realize it was a damselfly till it perched. I’m particularly fascinated by the Helicopters, large–huge–damselflies whose wings look like helicopter blades whirling around in circles as they pick off spiders from their webs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2011
Smith is the Staff Scientist Emeritus with the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Centre in Panama. During that search I came across a plover footnote in a notable case of scientific misconduct in the High Arctic. Dr. Neal G. In 1966 he published what was thought to be a ground breaking study on arctic gulls.
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