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Category Archives: IUCN
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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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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Yes, we know that “the climate has always changed”…
… but that’s not the point. Here’s what that point really is. The concentration of global, atmospheric CO2 today exceeds 400 ppm. The last time that happened on Earth was something like 2–5 million years ago, in the Pliocene Epoch … Continue reading
Posted in academics, deforestation, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, history, IUCN, overpopulation, skepticism and science, weather
Tagged #climate justice, #climate proxy, #ClimateAlwaysChanges, #coastal, #famine, #greenhouse gases, #Homo habilis, #human migration, #IPCC, #land cover, #land use, #Pliocene, #ppm, #refugee, #sea level, climate, CO2, environment, nature, NOAA, population, science, sustainability
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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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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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Dear Americans, stop using China and India as climate change scapegoats — The Logic of Science
Reblogged from The Logic of Science. I spend a lot of time on this blog debunking bad arguments, and I have previously devoted a lot of effort to debunking bad arguments against man-made climate change. There is, however, one … Continue reading
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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HBW Alive – newsletter #45
I’m always excited when I see the notice in my inbox of a new newsletter from Handbook of the Birds of the World. Here’s the first thing that caught my eye in this one: Okay. First, I am going to … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, environment, HBW Alive, hummingbirds, IUCN, life, population estimates, population monitoring, wildlife
Tagged biodiversity, Black-chinned Whistler, Gould's Inca, HBW Alive, Internet Bird Collection, natural history, ornithology, Rusty-breasted Whistler, Western Quail-thrush, Western Shrike-tit
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Remote sensing for wildlife detection
Post provided by Tracey Hollings In an age of rapid technological advances, ecologists need to keep abreast of how we can improve or reinvent the way we do things. Remote sensing technology and image analysis have been developing rapidly and … Continue reading
HBW Alive #42 – December 2017
The latest newsletter update from the Handbook of the Birds of the World is out, and it took me about 10 seconds to open the file and learn something new. In this case, the first thing I learned was that … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, deforestation, Endangered Species Act, environment, evolution, HBW Alive, IUCN, life, wildlife
Tagged Grey-browed Wren, Handbook of the Birds of the World, HBW Alive, Herve' Jacob, New Guinea Highlands, Nick Athanas, Snow Mountain Tiger-parrot
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Some perspective on peak abundance of Passenger Pigeon
You’ve heard the story before, and it’s sobering: Once perhaps the most abundant vertebrate on the planet, a combination of unremitting exploitation and habitat loss reduced the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) from billions to none in a few short decades … Continue reading
Posted in bird evolution, birds/nature, deforestation, editorial, Endangered Species Act, environment, history, IUCN, life, Links, National Audubon Society, Partners in Flight, population estimates, population monitoring, skepticism and science, wildlife
Tagged abundance, billions to none, conservation, environment, exploitation, extinction, habitat loss, nature, Partners in Flight, Passenger Pigeon, population, population estimates, science
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Handbook of the Birds of the World – newsletter #37
So much exciting new material in the latest update from HBW Alive! Here’s a teaser: Nº37, July 2017 Analytics: the new powerful tool with all your stats, graphs and maps! My Birding started out by offering a bird sighting recording … Continue reading
Posted in animal behavior, bird evolution, birding, birds/nature, editorial, environment, evolution, HBW Alive, IUCN, life, migrants, wildlife
Tagged conservation, HBW Alive, ornithology
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Functional diversity assessment – traits!
Post provided by Samuel RP-J Ross Our newly-developed method simulates intraspecific trait variation when measuring biodiversity. This gives us an understanding of how individual variation affects ecosystem processes and functioning. We were able to show that accounting for within-species variation … Continue reading
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