Just 25 years ago, tracking migratory birds using radio transmitters was a dream to most biologists because the technology was so expensive and batteries were short lived. Today these problems have been resolved, and the price of transmitters has become almost reasonable.
And thanks to the Internet, the public need not wait for months or even [...]
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Jan
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23
Jan
I judge a book by its cover. I wander around a bookstore and if a cover intrigues me I flip to a random page and just start reading. It�s a terrible way to choose because I assume there are some great pieces of literature with terrible cover jackets. But the process has been good to [...]
21
Jan
Imagine it’s May and you’re birding one of your favorite spots. The songs of neotropical migrants fill the air, and suddenly you hear an unfamiliar voice.
It’s vaguely familiar, but you can’t identify it. You listen intently, but the bird either moves on or simply goes silent. This happens frequently and always frustrates birders.
Scott Shalaway is [...]
15
Jan
In the 1930s, when the National Park Service went searching for the best examples of each ecosystem in the country, it chose this tract of 330,000 acres, abutting the Mexican border, to represent the Sonoran Desert. Organ Pipe is part of Arizona%26#8217;s larger borderland, the grand expanse of desert, grasslands and staggering peaks that [...]
24
Dec
If studying cheetahs sounds like a glamorous job, consider that Anne Hilborn spends a lot of her time looking for poop.
On a good day, the Seattle woman will spot one of the big cats doing its business in short grass, where the specimen is easy to find. On a bad day, the cheetahs squat in [...]
17
Dec
A jogger died Saturday after a car crossed four lanes of traffic and hit him as he ran along the shoulder of Duvall Avenue.
Police have not released the name of the 37-year-old jogger or the 34-year-old Renton-area man whose Saturn hit him about 12:40 p.m. Saturday.
Renton police say the victim was jogging south on the [...]
17
Dec
SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania %26#8212; If studying cheetahs sounds like a glamorous job, consider that Anne Hilborn spends a lot of her time looking for poop.
On a good day, the Seattle woman will spot one of the big cats doing its business in short grass, where the specimen is easy to find. On a [...]
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