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Category Archives: birds/nature
Start birding and you’ll never be bored again
<As first posted on LinkedIn> I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the terms #birding and #birdwatching. As I’m often explaining them to students from hunting backgrounds, I will usually lean into the word “hunting” for perspective. The hunt … Continue reading
Posted in birding, birds/nature, editorial, environment, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside
Tagged #bird watching, birding, birds, birdwatching, citizen science, eBird, environment, nature
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A New Effort to Reduce Bird-Window Collisions on Campus
This was the inaugural post on the blog I started 7 September, 2009: Bird-Window Collisions at OK State. I didn’t think that 14 years later we’d finally have an opportunity to assess the efficacy of window treatments to reduce collisions … Continue reading
Posted in academics, birding, birds/nature, editorial, environment, IUCN, life, Links, migrants, Partners in Flight, population monitoring, wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, architecture, biodiversity, bird-window collisions, birding, conservation, environment, Feather Friendly, glass, mitigation, mortality, Oklahoma State University, ornithology, science
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You’re going to graduate – then what?
In the life sciences and especially in ecology, conservation, wildlife management, etc., your success in this field is dictated by the same things that apply in just about any other field. You need to be intelligent, nimble, a good critical … Continue reading
Posted in academics, birds/nature, editorial, environment, mentoring, professional development, wildlife
Tagged career, career development, competency, ecojobs, eoclogy, field technician, graduate school, jobs, natural resources, Ornithology Exchange, research assistant, seasonal, skills, undergraduate, wildlife, wildlife management
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Bird Names For Birds
It’s long past time to consider, learn, care about, and correct a problem in our nomenclature for birds. via Historical Bios
Posted in academics, animal behavior, bird banding, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, career, environment, evolution, history, IUCN, mentoring, National Audubon Society, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside, ornithological newsletter, professional development, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged #AOS, #BirdNamesForBirds, #nomenclature, EDI, environment, history, ornithology, science, URM
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Wildlife of the real Gilligan’s Island(s)
Please don’t ask how I come up with these things because I can’t explain it, but I found myself wondering if anyone had ever eBirded Gilligan’s Island? Rabbit hole: entered. Quick history: Gilligan’s Island was a goofy comedy brainchild of … Continue reading
The state of global biodiversity — it’s worse than you probably think — ConservationBytes.com
Sobering synopsis here by CJA Bradshaw. For those of us who study natural history, such information confronts us every day. It can be easy to forget that we are a tiny minority of the billions of humans on this planet … Continue reading
Posted in bat conservation, birds/nature, deforestation, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, history, IUCN, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside, overpopulation, paleontology, population estimates, population monitoring, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged Anthropocene, biodiversity, Conservation Bytes, Diaz et al. 2019, environment, extinction, nature, population, science, Sixth Mass Extinction
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Your life is profoundly meaningful
It’s quite simple, really. The matter in our universe is comprised of the same elements throughout. Proportions differ and it might be mixed together differently here and there, but it’s the same stuff. Some of those mixes develop self-replication under … Continue reading
Posted in academics, animal behavior, birds/nature, editorial, environment, evolution, history, life, Links, mentoring, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged #cosmos, astrobiology, bison, buffalo, Carl Sagan, education, environment, George Catlin, history, intelligence, life, Marie Curie, meaning, nature, nebulae, pale blue dot, research, Revelation, science, sentience, universe
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My lifer Whooping Crane – something I thought I might never see
It’s been a long time coming, but I was recently guided to my lifer WHOOPING CRANE by my nephews Benjamin and Matt Hack (+ special guest star Matt’s friend Kaitie) at a lake near Dexter, Michigan. This is an ENDANGERED … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bird banding, birding, birds/nature, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, history, IUCN, migrants, population estimates, wildlife
Tagged ABA, Aransas NWR, birding, consevation, endangered species, ESA, extinction, Michigan, success story, USFWS, Whooping Crane, wildlife, Wood Buffalo NP
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One to watch: Nick Russo’s Ecology of Bird Movement and Dispersal
via Research Follow the link above to the Nick Russo’s website Ecology of Bird Movement and Dispersal. Interesting work and a lot more to come I’d wager!
Kerri J. Smith – beaked whales
via Research I found another bright young scientist to amplify today. This is Kerri J. Smith, who is studying Sowerby’s beaked whale. No, I’d never heard of this species either. #TIL
Posted in academics, animal behavior, birds/nature, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, history, IUCN, population estimates, population monitoring, professional development, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged environment, Kerri J. Smith, Mesoplodon bidens, nature, Sowerby's beaked whale
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The Wild Side for April 2019
Check out the latest newsletter of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Wildlife Diversity Program. Note: Only do this if you want to learn cool stuff about wildlife in the Sooner State and how to support them through your education … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bat conservation, bird banding, birding, birds/nature, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, IUCN, life, Links, migrants, monarch butterfly, National Audubon Society, No Child Left Inside, Partners in Flight, population estimates, population monitoring, professional development, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged chestnut-collared longspur, citizen science, gray treefrog, herps, non-game, ODWC, Oklahoma, pollinators, The Wild Side, Wildlife Diversity Program, wildscaping
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The nightjars are returning! — A Feathered Reptile
The world needs to better appreciate the unique style of of Gretchen Newberry and her use of art in her #SciComm! This just in! The last of the migrants are on their way back, as evidenced by this announcement by … Continue reading
Posted in academics, animal behavior, bat conservation, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, life, migrants, National Audubon Society, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged A Feathered Reptile, Caprimulgiformes, environment, Gretchen Newberry, migration, nature, nightjar, science, writing
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007 — History of Ornithology
BY: Bob Montgomerie, Queen’s University | 7 January 2019 A couple of years ago, my family and I had an early morning stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, en route to our spring bolthole in the French Pyrenees. As we stumbled bleary-eyed … Continue reading
Posted in academics, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, environment, evolution, history, wildlife
Tagged Bob Montgomerie, David Lack, Ian Fleming, James Bond, ornithology, Queen's University, West Indies
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Binocular advice for birders
I’m frequently asked about my recommendations for binoculars. My first recommendation is yes, you should get a pair. Sure, you can do a lot of birding without binoculars – and 90% or more of the birds I encounter I detect … Continue reading
Posted in BIRDATHON, birding, birds/nature, Christmas Bird Count, editorial, environment, life, National Audubon Society, nature deficit disorder, No Child Left Inside, Partners in Flight, wildlife
Tagged #binocs, #binoculars, #Bird Watchers' Digest, #bird watching, #British Trust for Ornithology, #European Breeding Bird Atlas, American Birding Association, birding, BirdWatch Ireland, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Countryside Bird Survey, National Audubon Society, nature, ornithology
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Handbook of the Birds of the World newsletter #50
The August newsletter of HBW Birds Alive– a milestone as the 50th in this series – has just been released. I’ve already lost track of how many new things I just learned in a few minutes’ browsing. Highlights:
Posted in animal behavior, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, environment, evolution, HBW Alive, IUCN, migrants, population estimates, population monitoring, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged biogeography, Golden Masked-owl, HBW Alive, Internet Bird Collection, ornithology, phylogenetics, Rain Quail, Siwa Reed Warbler, Southern Dark Newtonia, systematics, taxonomy, Torrent Tyrannulet
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Violent storms and violet skies on the Oklahoma prairie
Though it’s not easy to orchestrate given my other commitments, a singular joy of mine is to head west each June for a whirlwind investment of about 24 hours in conducting the Lookout, OK Breeding Bird Survey route. … Continue reading
Posted in birding, birding community e-bulletin, birds/nature, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, life, population monitoring, weather, wildlife, wind power
Tagged birding, Breeding Bird Survey, citizen science, Lookout, North American Breeding Bird Survey, Oklahoma, ornithology
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