| Passions and Detachment in Journalism Can personal passions can be reconciled with professional detachment? A reporter answers yes. feeds.nytimes.com |
Study: To save tigers, protect key breeding areas By ROBIN McDOWELL 2010-09-15T06:01:52ZJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Conservationists must protect tiger populations in a few concentrated breeding grounds in Asia instead of trying to safeguard vast, surrounding landscapes, if they want to save the big cats from extinction, scientists said.... hosted.ap.org |
Merino field day A field day at Armidale is giving merino sheep producers new information on how to assess risks to their flock. abc.net.au |
Today's Mystery Bird For You To Identify This lovely neotropical migrant bird has many remarkable features, but one of them makes it unique in North America. What is that?Mystery Bird photographed at Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]Image: Terry Sohl, 28 August 2010 [with binoculars].Canon 50D, 400 5.6L.This lovely neotropical migrant bird has many remarkable features, but one of them makes it unique in North America. What is that?Daily Mystery Bird Rules: 1. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification, keeping in mind that more than one field mark is often necessary to distinguish between species. IDs without any supporting information are not valid and may be deleted by the moderators. 2. Expert and intermediate level birders: do NOT try to be the first to blurt out the mystery bird's ID. Instead, please provide helpful hints, such as descriptions, literary references, puns, personal anecdotes, and other forms of discussion and assistance for beginning birders and for those following on their iPhones without naming the species. Expert and intermediate birders are free to name the bird species 24 or more hours after it was first published.3. Each mystery bird is usually accompanied by a question or two. These questions can be useful for identifying the pictured species, but may instead be used to illustrate an interesting aspect of avian biology, behaviour or evolution, or may be intended to generate conversation on other topics, such as conservation. 4. Each bird species will be demystified 48 hours after publication. If you have bird images, video or mp3 files that you'd like to share with a large and appreciate audience, feel free to email them to me for consideration.GrrlScientistguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
In Hawaii, Birds’ Friday Night Flights Turn Out the Lights on Prep Games The death of Newell’s shearwaters due to the lights of night games has changed when most high school football games on the Hawaiian island of Kauai now are played. feeds.nytimes.com |