Re: Bird Bias? New Research Reveals ¡®Drab¡¯ Species Get¡Less Research
Unfortunately I believe this bias applies far more widely than to just birds .. including for example children in school.
Perry Edwards
North Vancouver
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PERRY EDWARDS
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Bird Bias? New Research Reveals ¡®Drab¡¯ Species Get¡Less Research
I seem to recall species like song sparrow being studied here, so at least some ¡°LBJs¡± have gotten attention.
¡°The study, by a team of researchers from the University of Toledo and Ohio
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Pamela Zevit
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Announcing Chirp Check
Passing this on, please reach out to the Chiro Check project team (see about tab) if you have any comments or feedback.
Pamela Zevit RPBio | Biodiversity Conservation Planner
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Pamela Zevit
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Re: Australia and South Korea Trip Report
Derek.. wow! That¡¯s quite a story! That was your lucky day! Not only did you get the cranes and not get in trouble.. you didn¡¯t even get caught! Considering that¡¯s a military zone, that¡¯s
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Daniel Bastaja
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Re: Australia and South Korea Trip Report
Thanks Dan!
Yeah, the situation with the South Korean military was bizarre really. We had a GPS location for the cranes and made our way to the place when we came up to a serious road block with
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Derek Matthews
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Re: Australia and South Korea Trip Report
Derek.. what an amazing trip! Thanks for sharing!
Very lucky on the Chinese Crested Terns! That¡¯s supposed to be one of the rarest birds in the world. Nice! Also lucky you didn¡¯t wind up in a
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Daniel Bastaja
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Australia and South Korea Trip Report
We have just completed a 5-week birding trip to Australia and South Korea.
Australia (Western Australia and Northern Territory)
Australia is an interesting country to bird because it lacks
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Derek Matthews
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Re: Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges | Environment | The Guardian
Our local citizen scientist Gordon Propp is quoted at the start of the article .. albeit inaccurately despite his efforts to correct the details (regarding bridge numbers in particular), to his
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PERRY EDWARDS
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Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges | Environment | The Guardian
FYI
Bob Hay
Cassidy, BC
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/13/decades-after-peregrines-came-back-from-the-brink-a-new-threat-emerges-aoe
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Robert Hay
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Re: NABCI's state of the Birds 2025 with link
Apologies, hit send too fast! Here¡¯s the link.
https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2025/
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Pamela Zevit
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NABCI's state of the Birds 2025
Another sobering report.
¡°The report¡¯s Executive Summary highlights three key takeaways that together point the way forward for the conservation of our nation¡¯s priceless ecological
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Pamela Zevit
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Coastal Peregrine Falcons¡¯ Mysterious Decline
¡°Though scientists lack an official answer as to what¡¯s driving such sudden and far-reaching disappearances, many¡ªincluding David Bird, who formerly led the Avian Science and Conservation Centre
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Pamela Zevit
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Feb 13 (today) 12pm Webinar - Cat Bylaws in BC: Examples, Implementation, and Lessons Learned for Local Governments
Hello,
Please see here
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KbwTHWpzRoiNgrGmTqgDDw#/registration>
a link to a webinar this afternoon on a topic that is likely of interest
and on an issue that is
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greg ferguson
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Birds of a Feather Talk Together
Some birds may use songs to help each other migrate.
¡°Scientists have long believed that these songbirds rely on instinct and experience alone to make the trek. But new research from a team of
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Pamela Zevit
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Re: Hooded Merganser tangled with wire
To me it looks like a tangle of fishing line around its neck. Over the years I have seen this many times¡ diving birds being caught up on discarded fishing gear. Really sad. Heartbreaking to see.
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Daniel Bastaja
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Re: Hooded Merganser tangled with wire
I'm not sure if I can be of any help here but I do have a thermal imaging
device, large, expandable handle net and a powerful torch (flashlight) for a
new thermal imaging project we are working
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Derek Matthews
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Re: Hooded Merganser tangled with wire
This looks to me like plastic garden netting, which breaks away and can be found throughout the environment now: Mesh netting - a wildlife danger | Everything Not
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De Groot,Krista (elle, la | she, her) (ECCC)
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Western Field Ornithologists 2025 Research Grant Program Now Open
Please contact the WFO if you require further information.
Research Grants
The research grant program supports graduate and undergraduate student research and internships in the field biology of
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Pamela Zevit
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Re: Hooded Merganser tangled with wire
I dealt with several similar situations while volunteering with WRA; often involved entanglement with fishing lures and line. Very distressing and frustrating when you have no ready means of reaching
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PERRY EDWARDS
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Hooded Merganser tangled with wire
Hi all,
I've seen a hooded merganser male tangled with wire in Lost Lagoon last weekend.
The wire was around its neck and it was having a fish. So I was not too concerned.
But things got worse when
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rsliu.xd@...
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