10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

In the middle of the 20 th century bluebird populations across the country plummeted because of a decrease in nesting cavities, habitat loss, severe climatic events, and competition from introduced species such as House Sparrows. What resulted was one of the greatest conservation success stories of the last half-century.

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MARCH 2, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd.

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MAY 5, 2015

I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I wish Karlson and Rosselet had cited scientific articles explaining the basics of brain psychobiology to support their ideas.

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MAY 20, 2016

Birders will also enjoy such moments as Audubon’s first encounter with the Lincoln’s Sparrow and his observations of the mysterious Washington’s Eagle.

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MARCH 21, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners World Sparrow Day 2011 Why are Birds So Important to People? Or These Blasts From The Past Transitional Fossil?

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. A lot of birders don’t really care about lists besides their life list, which is great. Set a goal for yourself. Buy a couple of books and get into the field! Patch birding.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. But Nate is an eBird fanatic. His exhortations fell on deaf ears, but once he shared all of our Arizona lists with me, I was hooked!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2023

Two weeks later, it was a young math and science teacher from Oregon named Brent who asked me to take him with me. Black-chested and Stripe-headed Sparrows , Yellow-winged Caciques , Northern Beardless-Tyrannulets , Thick-billed Kingbirds , Golden-cheeked Woodpeckers , Varied Buntings , they all showed up.

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JUNE 3, 2024

” Hurray for science. If the tree sparrows ever start a revolution, this species is likely to be among the first to be lined up against a wall and shot. Richard’s Pipit is a rather aristocratic-looking pipit.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” Bird communication is a complex and evolving science.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Zamorano University may be regarded as one of the crown jewels of Latin American higher education, particularly in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, and food science, but this idyllic campus excels for more reasons than simply academics. Zamorano happens to be incredibly birdy.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. I myself will be starting with the chapters on Marsh Sparrows. Le Conte’s Sparrow!” George was a tour leader for Field Guides, Inc.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Audubon Rebrand Don’t Be a Slob Birder First I and the Bird of 2010 is Coming… Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline “Science Versus Snake Oil&# About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In Shanghai, one way to find out was to measure the concentration of these chemicals in Eurasian Tree Sparrows from different locations. Still, the poor sparrows … Advice to them: Avoid landfills and researchers. But I may well be wrong.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

NARITA, JAPAN, DECEMBER 2012 – The art and science of layover birding deserves more rigorous study and perhaps a federal grant. From what airports should one sally forth during a layover of many hours? Better yet, what airports are worth converting that layover to a full-fledged stopover of 24 hours or more?

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MARCH 8, 2012

; European Starling (983 individuals); Canada Goose (808 individuals) Best Places to See Woodpeckers: Manassas National Battlefield (7 species); Gettysburg National Military Park (5 species) Best Places to See Sparrows: Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania National Battlefield (9 species); Manassas National Battlefield (8 species) Best Places to See Raptors: (..)

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. Everything is new, and even the pigeons or sparrows flying around the airport make an exciting first for your country list. Here is how he prepared for his tour of Serbia: Guest-author : Raphael Nussbaumer.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

But we won’t let science get in the way of Fremont’s claim – which is actually one of the better ones from the many places on earth that claim this distinction. And yes, three of those eight species are Rock Pigeon, European Starling, and House Sparrow.).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. If you can advertise beer with Clydesdale horses, bull terriers, and bullfrogs, I don’t see why you can’t use a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

The next morning we were on the island exploring and going for a hike out to Ewing cove, where I ran across Hammonds Flycatchers, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Spotted Towhees, Savannah Sparrows, House Wrens, Bewick’s Wrens, White-crowned Sparrows , and a pair of Black Oystercatchers along the shore where we landed the dinghy.

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MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

So, let’s talk more about the Harris’s Sparrow. This big, chunky sparrow is one of Canada’s few endemic breeders (Wikipedia says the only one, but I trust Cornell more.) This genus contains some of my favorite sparrows, although it is hard to put my finger on why. Unlike all other U.S.

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JULY 19, 2021

He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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JUNE 24, 2016

After Audubon’s death, however, Brewer managed to put some serious scratches and dents in his own ornithological reputation, first by advocating for the introduction of the House Sparrow to Boston and later by vehemently opposing those who wanted the invasive species eradicated.

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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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JANUARY 4, 2013

and a handful more ( Rock Pigeon , House Sparrow , and my first native bird, White-Throated Sparrow ), but for the most part I’ve been sticking to indoor pursuits here in chilly New York City. But in one of the gaps of the fence, a House Sparrow perches, stretching briefly. House Sparrows particularly, in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Species order follows the AOU Checklist of North American Birds up to the 2015 supplement (so warblers come before sparrows), with a variation– certain subspecies are treated as full species (Eurasian Teal, Western Willet, Audubon’s Warblers, Red Fox Sparrow, and more). . This is a project that clearly spanned decades.

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MARCH 19, 2011

Faustus’ opening monologue by heart as it is such an impressive chain of thoughts for anyone immersed in studying natural sciences. Despite being mainly interested in botany, about which he published some of the most influencial scientific essays of his time, he was also very well acquainted with the animal kingdom.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

This led to a correspondence with Spencer Fullerton Baird, then assistant secretary of the Smithsonian, the mentor of many naturalist/scientists of Ridgway’s generation, himself a disciple of John James Audubon, and, yes, the Baird of Baird’s Sparrow. Baird, Brewer, Cory, Bicknell, and Worthen all make appearances. It’s challenging reading.

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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.’ ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. On Quora , one question asked (presumably not by a sparrow) is “What does he mean by I have a beautiful soul?” ” This sparrow does not want to hear it has a beautiful soul.

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MAY 27, 2024

In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. Eurasian Tree Sparrows frequently find themselves out in the wild without a glass to drink from. The Finch Research Network calls it a high mountain specialist, which seems a bit weird given that my photo was taken exactly at sea level.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Thank god that this does not apply to humans. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).

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APRIL 4, 2023

Gulls and sparrows are tough but manageable; Empids may require DNA analysis (as it actually did in the case of the non-vocalizing Western Flycatcher seen in Central Park, NYC in November 2015). Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.

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