While the shotgun pellets lodged in the birds concerned scientists, it was the lead in their blood that proved more deadly.
The Cory's Shearwater is poorly known in the Neotropical region, where it has been definitely recorded on a relatively small number of occasions to date, and not all of the birds concerned have been specifically identified to taxon.
This commits signatories to regulate the taking of listed species or their eggs, to establish protected areas to conserve habitats for the listed species, to regulate hunting and to monitor the populations of the birds concerned.
And Dickie Bird was concerned, sidling over to his more senior colleague, Arthur Jepson, to suggest that they call a halt.
The Norwegian prison system is criticized in the satirical musical Til lykke med dagen (1965; "Happy Birthday"), while the play Fugleelskerne (1966; The Bird Lovers) concerns the conflict between Germans and Italians, and between culpability and money, in the Italian countryside during World War II.
After months of debate and two days of hearings about rebuilding the World Trade Center site -- hours of speeches from everyone from learned architects to a bird lover concerned about the winged crashing into glass walls -- what can New Yorkers now expect?
To evaluate an approach to collecting such data, and to address unanswered questions concerning birds in populated areas, I organized a volunteer-based bird monitoring project (the Tucson Bird Count, or TBC) in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
So as far as birding was concerned, I was, as my iPhone would put it, ducked.
This suggests that inferences concerning birds' cognitive abilities from any single task, especially a task that does not involve learning a discrimination or reversal, may not be warranted.
Like several other puffbirds, this species is known to use arboreal termitaria in which to nest, at least occasionally, but very little is otherwise known concerning the bird's breeding behavior.
