Showing posts with label migration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migration. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

A Wildlife Transmitter Beats an Arrow In the Neck

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Re-posted from 2009. Remember, when we were kids and people said the birds "flew south" for the winter? Well, believe i...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Coffee, Birds & the World Bank

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American Redstart It is pathetic, but true, that there are 391 Starbuck's coffee houses within an hour's drive from my house ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Monarchs & Mexico

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A repost from this blog, 2009. "I understand more and more how population is the problem. I was asking almost every peasant I me...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

The Missing Birds of Rock Creek Park

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OvenBird This was written in 2003 for a major environmental organization. The decline of neotropical migrant song birds in the U.S. was f...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Boiling World of Animal Migration

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Birds fly south for the winter, by they also fly east and west as well, and some birds, such as penguins, even swim their migration routes...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Great American Migrations

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Click pictures to enlarge. Photos from National Geographic via the Big Picture blog .  The National Geographic Great Migrations series...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

To Be By Your Side :: Nick Cave

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Bird Flies from Australia to Aleuts in Eight Days

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From Birdlife International comes this map and amazing story of transmitters fitted to four Ruddy Turnstones , one of whom flew from the Al...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Round and Round in the Circle Game

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May the circle be unbroken. I found this graphic on my computer today while I was looking for something else. I suspect I saved it a few ye...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A World Connected and Boiling With Life

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Loggerhead turtle migration in the Atlantic. T he entire world is a seething mass of migration . Sharks, tuna, whales, and turtles migrate,...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Shakespeare in the Park

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Starling on fence post showing the distinctive "star" markings that give the bird its name. Starlings flocking on a warm road in r...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Tracking How the Dragons Fly

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  Each year, millions of dragonflies arrive on the Maldive Islands , but until now no one has known where they came from.  Now they do. I...
Monday, March 19, 2007

A Shearwater's Endless Summer

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The first robins have arrived back north -- a sure sign of Spring on the horizon. The first robins are always males , as they come before t...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Looking for Bird Flu in Alaska?

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Sand Piper, Alaska The Associated Press reports that biologists are testing thousands of birds in Alaska, looking for any signs of Avian Fl...