Stuck in a Rutt Birding (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another Friday, another open day, this time it was to be Exeter at Falmouth, in Penryn. Last time I did this trip west it was in February and I was disappointed to go without any Red Kites. This time, two of the slender winged and surprisingly effeminate raptors were just west of Reading. J. A. Baker in his poetic classic, ‘The Peregrine’ describes the difference between a flying Peregrine...
Scrapblog: a Writer from the South-West (Free subscription) | yesterday
What C21 teenage girl of 16-18 years would be content with the simple and self-chosen pursuits of walking, window-shopping, playing battledore and shuttlecock and chess, reading, writing essays, ornithology, drawing, sun-sets, natural-history, self-improvement and spritual sustenance? A day in the life of 16 year old Emily Shore's long stay in Exeter, in 1837, was jam-packed with richly acute observations...
A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Emperor Penguins / Photo by lin padgham Bird and birding news A study of the fossil record argues that there were six genera and nine species of moas (much lower than other estimates) and that the North and South Islands of New Zealand have been geographically isolated for 20-30 million years. The Puerto Rican Nightjar's range is much than previously estimated ; in all this species has 1,400-2,000...
MurciaDailyPhoto (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Therefore, at the Museum of Science and Water in Murcia ( Museo de la Ciencia y el Agua ) is an exhibition about the evolution of species, showing the work of Darwin and de la Espada. De la Espada was a naturalist born in Cartagena (Murcia). He was born the same year that Darwin...
Writing and Ruminating (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Today's stops on the WBBT are as follows: Illustrator Jim DiBartolo at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast in another of the gobsmackingly gorgeous posts we've all come to expect from Jules and Eisha. This one is chock full of Jim's original art, including a few of his co-productions with his lovely and talented wife, Laini Taylor, who is interviewed by Kerry at Shelf Elf today (see below): Art...
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
# 4038 Cats, normally, are not affected by human influenza viruses. Feline Influenza, which can be very serious in cats, is actually a generic term for a respiratory syndrome caused viruses that are not of the influenza family. Feline influenza syndrome is commonly caused by the feline herpes virus (FHV 1) and feline calicivirus (FCV), neither of which are of the influenza family of viruses. The exception...
Gadling (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Surfing , Festivals and Events , Food and Drink , Europe , North America , India , Israel , Finland , Netherlands , Mexico , United States , Middle East It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly international selection of happenings. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and...
A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Whether by chance or by design, this week witnessed the publication of two studies on birds from the islands made famous by Charles Darwin. The first concerns one of the best-known examples of evolution, the Galápagos finches. A married pair of biologists have been banding and tracking finches on Daphne Major for several decades. In 1981, they banded a medium ground-finch ( Geospiza fortis )...
Dear Kitty backup UK (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
From the BBC : Wednesday, 18 November 2009 DNA clue to save rare Darwin bird Sub-populations of the mockingbirds remain on two small islands A rare mockingbird could be reintroduced to the Galapagos Islands - with the help of some specimens collected by Charles Darwin . A team of geneticists extracted DNA from two birds that the famous naturalist collected in 1835. By comparing this to DNA from living...
ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A bird on the Galapagos Islands has split into two species. But yeah, that whole Creationism thing still has legs. Sure.
Pittswood Birds (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I barely had two hours this afternoon before the evening started to draw in, thats not enough time!! Most birds were seen in or around the small holding today, a flock of mixed Tits, with a few CHAFFINCH, 5 FIELDFARE, a SISKIN and a TREECREEPER all found something to eat in a hawthorne bush, whilst two GREEN WOODPECKERS and three JAYS were in the pear trees. Not much happening in the wet woods, so...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It's tough to argue against logic like this...what with it lacking logic and all : If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? Which completely explains the prohibition on eating things like Pigs, Shellfish, and... But don't eat the meat of any of...
The Flycatcher (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Waimea Canyon, "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" Erckel's Francolin is native to Sudan and Ethiopia, so at first it seems that Hawaii would not have the kind of habitat this bird needs. But then when you see Waimea Canyon on the island of Kauai, it's immediately clear that there is plenty of rocky, inaccessible habitat here. The canyon is 10 miles long and 3,500 ft. deep. This bird, however,...
Eco-Living (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
No, not Obama this time, but Bob the Builder. I took my 2.75 yr old to the live show in Newcastle on Saturday (not my idea, honest, no really). The show was pretty well put on (although the young Muck fans behind me were to be disappointed), but it featured such a heavy-handed green theme it made me cringe. Bob and his team were set the task of building an eco-centre, featuring wind turbines, recycling...
the Marvelous in nature (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
As a continuation on the weekend’s theme presented by yesterday’s post, today I thought I’d do a snapshots of the different hummingbird species from the Manu region of Peru. There are currently 22 species of hummingbird listed on the checklist of birds of the Manu Wildlife Centre, and that’s just what’s been recorded at this [...]
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