Archives for the 'Birds' Category
NatureServe
Published on 10 Mar 2007 at 4:45 am.
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Filed under Birds, Research, Wildlife.
The internet just keeps getting bigger. This last week, I stumbled across a new group called NatureServe that makes publicly available data about species distributions across the Western Hemisphere. NatureServe itself has information on over 65,000 species of plant and animal. You can download all sorts of information, such as Conservation Status, Distribution, Ecology and [...]
No Chickadees
Published on 14 Apr 2006 at 4:17 pm.
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Filed under Birds, Travel, Wildlife.
Our birdwatching trip to the Boreal Forests of northern Wisconsin was very exciting. We did not see any Boreal Chickadees, nor did we see any Black-Backed Woodpeckers, which we also looked for. However, we did see several Gray Jays, which in my opinion are beautiful.
They have no crest, but are covered in soft fluffy feathers [...]
On the Hunt for Boreal Chickadees
Published on 7 Apr 2006 at 8:36 am.
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Its early morning in the Bronx and the car alarms are singing below in a chorus accompanied by sirens from the nearby hospital and percussion from the construction work. Its 8:30 am, which is early for me.
I am getting ready to leave for Wisconsin. Its my dad’s birthday this month, and we are going birdwatching in [...]
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Soft Tissue
Published on 7 Apr 2006 at 2:57 am.
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Filed under Birds, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Paleontology.
Just last week in the March 25th issue of Science, an article by Mary H. Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, John R. Horner, and Jan K. Toporski announced the unimaginable. They had found soft tissue remnants inside the fossilized femur of a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0324_050324_trexsofttissue.html
The Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton had been found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana a [...]
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My Goose
Published on 27 Mar 2006 at 9:57 pm.
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Filed under Birds, General.
I will share a little something that I have enjoyed over the years. This morning I drove back from The Bronx to Albany NY. The first part of my drive is a frantic race north on the Bronx River Parkway. I am very familiar with this stretch of highway since I used to drive it daily [...]
