Posts Tagged ‘State Bird’
Bird Watch
Much like Oklahoma’s geography, our state bird has a long tail, which gives it a distinctive profile.
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Bird Brains: Feathered Friends Snag Supercomputer Power
Ornithology has always been a bit like Wikipedia–that is, crowdsourced. Since the early days of naturalism, professional bird researchers have always gotten a hand in their data collecting from amateur bird watchers. In 2002, there was an attempt to formalize this relationship with the eBird project , a joint venture of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society …
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“Increased Destruction of Bird Populations are Predicted with Rise in Comprehensive Temperatures” [Life Shape]
Based on information presented at the Comprehensive Change and Comprehensive Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing World conference, August 4-7, 2010 in Westminster, Colorado. Photo:Budgerigars killed by a heat wave on a ranch in western Australia in 2009 courtesy of Blair Wolf. Blair Wolf, an associate professor of biology at the University of New Mexico, and Andrew McKechnie at the University of …
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Cactus Wren, Arizona State Bird, Singing.
willow ptarmigan is the alaska state bird. is it just me, or does it seem a little weird to you, that there is a hunting season for them? ps no birds were shot for the making of da vid
The visual isn’t perfect… I couldn’t get close enough. I was hoping to get a good recording of their sound.
This wild hawaiian gooses begged for a drink and got it.
This family of willow ptarmigan was filmed and photographed in the thickets at Denali National Park in Alaska, July, 1st. 2009. All the video, still images and music were made by myself. I would like to thank the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, particularly Robert B. Weeden for the information about Willow Ptarmigan used for the narrative. The cameras used are a Panasonic PV-GS250 video camera and a Panasonic DMC-FZ20 digital still camera. Also an M-audio Firewire Solo recording …