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Flying Penguins???
Published on 9 Apr 2008 at 6:34 am.
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Filed under Birds, Fun, animation.
BBC released a video showing flying Penguins migrating to the tropics.
You gotta love computer-generated imagery!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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My First Google Gadget
Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 8:40 pm.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Coding, Gadgets, Inventions, Software.
I have just submitted my first Google Gadget.
It is called Bird of the Day, and it simply presents a photo of a new bird species each day. The photo is a public domain image from Wikipedia, and I link back to it so that you can get more information.
Here it is:
You can put it on […]
Launch of BirdPlanner.com
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 3:32 am.
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Filed under Birds, Ecology, Solutions, Wildlife.
I am pleased to publicly announce the launch of BirdPlanner.com
I have been working on this project for one year now, and it is now ready for public consumption. The site enables bird watchers and ecotourists to create a list of the birds that live at any location in the Western Hemisphere. If you are travelling and […]
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Encyclopedia of Life
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Climate, Exploration, Green, Internet, Wildlife.
I recently learned of the project called “Encyclopedia of Life“, which endeavors to create an online encyclopedia featuring every known life form on Earth. From what I can see, this is going to be done in an open access manner.
Sample pages exist for the following organisms:
Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita Phalloides)
Rice (Oryza Sativa)
Yeti Crab (Kiwa Hirsuta)
and […]
Behold the Gorgeted Puffleg
Published on 15 May 2007 at 12:45 am.
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Ornithologists Alexander Cortés-Diago and Luis Alfonso Ortega recently announced the discovery of a new hummingbird in the cloud forests in the Serrania del Pinche in south-west Colombia. The bird was sighted three times during surveys of the region in 2005.
Surveys in 2006 yielded photographs of the bird, which enabled scientists at the International Bird […]
