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Lufthansa to Europe: Virtual Pilot! - 0 views
Mount St. Helens: Rising From the Ashes - 2 views
Biodiversity video - 1 views
Pollinator Partnership - 2 views
Birds In Flight Project: Listening for Flight Calls - 0 views
Biodiversity | EarthSky - 0 views
Flying Transformers: Birds Gear Up for Migration | Wired.com - 0 views
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"Some species, such as warblers, which can weigh less than an ounce but fly 2,500 miles without resting, double their body weights in preparation for the voyage.To put it in a human perspective, if you were going to put on a lot of fat and try to live off it while doing a cross-country run, you would die," said Russell Greenberg, head of the National Zoo's Migratory Bird Center. "There's no human equivalent.""
9/11 Memorial Lights Trap Thousands of Birds | Wired.com - 0 views
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"On the evening of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the twin columns of light projected as a memorial over the World Trade Center site became a source of mystery. Illuminated in the beams were thousands of small white objects, sparkling and spiraling, unlike anything seen on other nights... Those unidentified objects have now been identified as birds, pulled from their migratory path and bedazzled by the light in a perfect, poignant storm of avian disorientation."
Chaffinch and Winter Wren Podcast | Encyclopedia of Life - 0 views
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"Every morning when he walks the dog, retired professor of natural history Peter Slater can identify as many as thirty birds by their song along. On a walk in a Scottish town with Ari Daniel Shapiro, Slater explains what two common songsters, the chaffinch and winter wren, are singing about, and how even city dwellers can learn to "bird by ear" in their own neighborhoods, with rewarding results."
Young Voices on Climate Change | Youth Videos for the Environment - 1 views
From Brazil: Doing Fieldwork by Satellite « Round Robin - 0 views
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"ut the truth is that satellites are so last century-so much, in fact, that scientists have begun using them to document historical changes. The above picture, from NASA's 38-year-old Landsat program, shows the Lake Djoudj region of Senegal during a drought in 1979 and during a flood 20 years later. Even at this small scale it's clear how much information the pictures contain about how the land has changed."
Diigolet | Diigo - 0 views
Adobe Flash Player - 0 views
YouTube - LabofOrnithology's Channel - 0 views
WeLoveBirds.org - 0 views
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