Birds & Birding
Learning to Fly
Adult birds make flight look effortless, but for fledglings it’s a different story. They must practice and build flight muscles before they take to the air.
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Poisoning Vultures Will Come Back to Bite Us
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Can Common Names Help Avian Subspecies Conservation?
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It’s Not Easy Being a Hatchling
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For Migratory Red Knots, It’s a Small World After All
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Migration, The Black Box of Neotropical Bird Conservation
Bird Around the World
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Boucher’s 2015 Bird of the Year: Rufous Potoo
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Introducing the Australian Brushturkey
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Scientists (Re)Re-discover the Australian Night Parrot. Now What?
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Kumuls on Camera: Photographing Birds-of-Paradise in Papua New Guinea
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Epic Birding Fails: Lyrebirds in Australia
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Searching for the Lesser Bird-of-Paradise
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Extreme Birding: Entering Un-Birded Territory in Papua New Guinea
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Are Neonicotinoids the Next DDT?
The word’s most widely used insecticides are likely causing widespread declines in bird and insects populations.
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Timothy Boucher
Tim is a senior conservation geographer at The Nature Conservancy. Working in international conservation science for the past 16 years, he has used remote sensing and geographic information science to assess habitat condition, protection, and threats. He has conducted field assessments on six continents, applying spatial analyses to a wide range of conservation issues ranging from marine spawning aggregations in Belize to global land-cover analysis.
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You’ve probably heard about the loss of honey bees. But did you know native bumble bees face even more alarming declines? These vital pollinators are disappearing due to pesticides and habitat loss. You can make a difference — right in your backyard.
