Conservation

Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

August 20, 2013 by Greg 4 Comments
Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species...
Birds

Cory’s Shearwater Uses Mental Map of Pelagic Odor

July 16, 2013 by Greg 3 Comments
I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to...
Birds, Conservation

Climate Change and Birds

June 18, 2013 by Greg 31 Comments
I write a lot about climate change on my other blog, and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this...
Birds

Birds: The Downside

May 21, 2013 by Greg 5 Comments
It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we...
Birds

Feed me or I’ll die, and possibly take you with me!

April 16, 2013 by Greg 1 Comment
Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other great bird-savvy ethologists of the...
Birds

It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

March 19, 2013 by Greg 4 Comments
In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example...
Duck Stamp and Theoretical Wildlife Stamp
Conservation

Duck Numbers And Duck Stamp Sales No Longer Correlate

February 19, 2013 by Greg 9 Comments
The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. This has resulted in a reduction of the...
Birding

Bird-Eating Fish

January 15, 2013 by Greg 3 Comments
Usually, it’s “Bird eating fish” but here we have a case of a “Bird-eating fish.” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis, is the second largest...
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