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Em audição: Björk ? ?Biophilia?
2011-10-14 12:10:00 É um dos álbuns mais aguardados de 2011 e já foi inclusivamente alvo de destaque aqui no Musicómetro. Referimo-nos, claro está, a “Biophilia”, o novo álbum conceptual de Björk, provavelmente a mais famosa esquimó do mundo. O disco pode agora ser escutado na íntegra através do player que encontram em baixo. Estão à espera do quê? Pressionem play!
By: Musicómetro
Sea Turtle Hatchery: 33 years at Lara Beach in Cyprus
2011-08-17 14:40:00 In the last 33 years some amazing work has been taking place at the Akamas Reserve and along the beaches of Cyprus where the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) create their nests. Tagged: Cyprus, sea turtles, video
By: Migrations
Birds of the Gods
2011-02-09 18:44:00 The Malay Archipelago is where Alfred Russell Wallace first envisioned a mechanism for evolutionary change, making him the co-founder of the Theory of Natural Selection. While in this part of the world, he paid much attention to the Birds of Paradise, which he regarded as the most beautiful birds on earth. After seeing the displays ...
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Murder of Crows
2010-12-09 09:47:00 Have you ever noticed how clever some birds are – especially crows? They’ve long had a place in the myths and legends of many cultures as schemers or scavengers, wise or even godlike, bringers of light and bringers of death. Most often in Western cultures they are regarded as spooky or omenous, probably because we ...
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A Tale of Two Warblers
2010-11-28 09:34:00 My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: A Tale of Two Warblers Cyprus? attractiveness to traveling birders is largely a result of its endemic species ? the Cyprus Warbler (Sylvia melanothorax) and the Cyprus Wheatear (Oenanthe cypriaca). The whole of their populations breed only in Cyprus every year. Happily, they?re not difficult to ...
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Great Migrations in book form
2010-11-15 13:19:00 WASHINGTON (Aug. 16, 2010)?Whether they crawl, canter, fly or swim, millions of animals undertake epic journeys each year ? some as long as 44,000 miles. For countless species, migration is a dramatic, dangerous and crucial endeavor ? and it is arguably the greatest spectacle that nature orchestrates. The migration story ? what drives animals to ...
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Visit me on 10,000 Birds
2010-10-29 19:10:00 My first post for 10,000 Birds is up… Don’t get your flyways crossed. Here’s a taste: What corner of the globe is Cyprus tucked away in? I?m sure a lot of people don?t know. Well, for the uninitiated, Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, in the far northeastern corner by Turkey and ...
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Red-footed Falcon
2010-10-14 14:26:00 Red-footed Falcon ???????????? (Falco vespertinus) Credit: Wild Wonders of Europe / Varesvuo / naturepl.com The most numerous falcon species which passes through Cyprus each Autumn is the Red-Footed Falcon. On a bad day in early October, you might see 4 or 5 of these falcons even if you’re in the right area; on a good ...
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New Books on Birds
2010-08-26 14:31:00 The Guardian brings word, or rather photos, of a new book on birds that fans of biodiversity might be keen to buy. Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens, is from New Holland Publishers. New Holland Publishers summarize: A guide to some of the rarest birds in existence, brought together by the maps showing where ...
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Why Common Species Matter
2010-08-25 15:22:00 This essay was originally written for The Nature Conservancy of Canada. We often hear a lot about rare, endangered or disappearing species ? species that are in need of swift action to save them. There is no doubt that they are important to talk about. How else do we raise awareness about the last populations ...
By: Migrations
Bird Behavior: Fieldfares
2010-08-16 11:43:00 David Attenborough examined how fieldfares gang up and drive out a raven who has entered their territory looking for food. From the BBC. Tagged: behavior, Birds
By: Migrations
Life, represented on a tree
2010-06-21 08:01:00 From David Hillis’ lab, and reproducible for non-commercial, educational purposes. (H/t PZ Myers)
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Cyprus? Lost Forests
2010-06-06 15:04:00 While today forests fill 175,404 hectares or 19% of the area of Cyprus mostly in the mountains of the Paphos district in the western side of the island, historians and archaeologists suggest that Cyprus was once quite different. Cyprus was once characterized as ?Dasoessa,? meaning a place full of forests, and as ?a golden-green leaf ...
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Bird Photos from Cyprus
2010-03-11 13:13:00 Birds are wonderful things, and photos of birds are almost as good. Better, perhaps, because they give one a clearer and sharper sight than you can often get with the naked eye, perfectly preserved. I just finally came across a Flickr group pool for Cyprus Birding where photographers can contribute some of their image collections. ...
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Quote of the Day
2009-09-18 17:29:00 Biodiversity and endangered species are two topics on my mind today, along with a common response from Cypriots with regard to poaching and ambelopoulia here. That response being, “So what?” With that, here is a quote (okay, more of an excerpt) from David Quammen’s book Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, ...
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Image of the Day ? Demoiselle Cranes
2009-09-07 13:58:00 If you’ve never seen a living Demoiselle Crane in the wild, you might have seen one in a zoo or in the TV series Planet Earth. The scene in Planet Earth, where Golden Eagles ambushed Demoiselle Cranes as they migrated high over the Himalayas, is actually how I knew the bird. They are in fact a ...
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Remaking Habitat From Landfill
2009-08-26 09:03:00 Here is a story from my hometown newspaper in the US that I could not help but pass along: Landfill remakes 200 acres as valuable wildlife habitat, by Gary Blockus. The area already is home to a wide variety of birds and wildlife, and the facility has been adding a variety of bird boxes for different ...
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Image of the Day
2009-08-17 11:35:00 Wikipedia – Eleonora’s Falcon (Falco eleonorae) is a medium-sized falcon. It belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis. The Sooty Falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do not seem to be close sister species. ...
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Guest Post on Paw-Talk
2009-08-16 17:25:00 I wrote a nice (if I may say) invited guest post for the blog Paw-Talk, The Wonder of Birds. It’s rather on a personal note and directed towards relative newcomers to birdwatchers. Go check it out and let me know what you think. The blog Paw-Talk on the whole is pretty neat, and covers the gamut ...
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New Book on the Nature of Cyprus
2009-06-26 10:28:00 The Cypriot bi-communal NGO Friends of Nature has announced the publication of a book on the natural flora and fauna of the island. English and Greek editions are available of this 272-page coloured nature guide book. It contains extensive information, including photos, maps, tables and description of around 200 selected nature spots on the island. It ...
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Wildlife Reclaiming the Buffer Zone
2009-06-22 13:30:00 Via BBC News, Sheep rule defunct Cyprus village: In 1974, after Turkish troops arrived on the island amid political upheaval, the residents of Variseia – who were Greek Cypriots – received 24 hours’ notice to leave their homes as conflict enveloped Cyprus. Eventually a divide was created to separate Turkish Cypriots from Greek Cypriots, a barrier that ...
By: Migrations
?Kindness Kills Wildness?
2009-06-08 14:42:00 From the Project Operation Migration team, working to recover the endangered Whooping Crane: Teaching birds to migrate is not an easy task. It takes a year-long commitment for every generation we release, and a crew of twelve to compete the migration. Adding an isolation protocol and removing all human elements multiplies the complexity by a factor ...
By: Migrations
The Blue Manakin Courtship Troupe
2009-05-15 10:47:00 Shown here, the unusual courtship ritual of the blue manakin, as shown in David Attenborough’s documentary, The Life of Birds. What an fascinating example of sexual selection.
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Tension Between Species Discovery and Extinction Reflected in Art
2009-05-06 10:20:00 From SEED Magazine comes a short item that catches my sense of biophilia: Once Out of Nature: “Isabella Kirkland?s life-size paintings of exotic, recently discovered species capture a world caught between the joys of discovery and the threat of imminent loss.” Artist Isabella Kirkland?s meticulous oil paintings revisit this bittersweet tension between discovery and loss. Each ...
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Publicity for Operation Migration
2009-04-26 09:56:00 a href=”http://www.telegrap-h.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou-tthat/5197464/Endangered-whoopi-ng-crane-follows-aircraft-in-un-ique-migration.html”>Enda-ngered whooping crane follows aircraft in unique migration - “These endangered whooping crane, pictured flying through the air in V-formation, are seen making the long journey south in a unique human-led migration.” Word of Operation Migration gets out at least once every Spring and Fall it seems, keeping people informed on the progress of ...
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Gratuitous Image of Lepidopteran Diversity
2009-03-31 09:33:00 Image from The Bordalier Institute
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Quote of the Day
2009-03-16 19:00:00 With the hints of Springtime coming our way, this quote seems appropriate: In the sea, as on land, spring is a time for the renewal of life. During the long months of winter in the temperate zones the surface waters have been absorbing the cold. Now the heavy water begins to sink, slipping down and displacing ...
By: Migrations
Bringing Life to Your Yard
2009-02-25 13:16:00 I’ll tell you first upfront, I don’t own a house with a yard. Just a modest flat. But I’ve always rather had the opinion that the well-manicured suburban lawn was unseemly, even though one might be an outcast to let it grow into a jungle. Native plants especially, are always a very welcome sight with ...
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Tracking Songbird Migration Routes
2009-02-24 13:43:00 Here’s a very appropriate entry for Migrations - an article published last week and blogged about by Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science: Light-detecting backpacks record the complete migration routes of songbirds Their backpacks were light-measuring devices called “geolocators”, each about the size of a small coin. By measuring rising and falling light levels, these miniature ...
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Nature Photos in Cyprus
2009-02-17 18:35:00 I’m not involved with the group Friends of the Earth Cyprus, despite several common interests*. So I only just noticed that they did have a very nice photo exhibition and contest at the Art and Literature House in Limassol. The exhibition had a total of 172 photos from 34 photographers from all over Cyprus. The included ...
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Birding with David Attenborough
2008-04-20 11:27:00 Greg Laden likes YouTube clips, and some originating with David Attenborough really stand out. Take this first one listening to the Magnificent Lyre Bird, a second with raising Whooping Crane chicks, and a third displaying the Superb Bird Of Paradise. Attenborough has produced over 150 hours of video of the highest caliber, covering ...
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Monarchs Under Threat
2008-04-05 08:43:00 Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration: Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America?s most celebrated natural wonders ? the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a University of Kansas researcher, the astonishing migration may collapse rapidly without urgent action to end devastation of the butterfly?s vital sources of ...
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Slap on the Wrists for Falcon Slaughterers in Cyprus
2008-04-04 10:21:00 I’m a bit late in posting this, but do you remember a few months ago, when two men here in Cyprus were tracked down after slaughtering 52 Red-footed Falcons (Falco vespertinus), for target practice? The incident occurred on British Sovereign Base Area (SBA) land, and the case went to the SBA courts. Last month, the ...
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Migrating into the Sunset
2008-03-30 21:48:00 Migrating Sandhill Cranes over the Platte River, Nebraska. (Image: Dave Rintoul, KSU.) I would be seriously remiss not to pass this one along. Hat tip: Hedwig the Owl
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Restoring Our Ecology
2008-03-29 15:10:00 ?For each of us, as for the robin in Michigan or the Salmon in the Miramichi, this is a problem of ecology, of interrelationships, of interdependence. We poison the caddis flies in a stream and the salmon runs dwindle and die. We poison the gnats in a lake and the poison travels from link to ...
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Encyclopedia of Life
2008-02-27 10:39:00 As a biophile, I can’t help but link to the Encyclopedia of Life (via PZ). While the concept has been tried before, E.O. Wilson is behind this incarnation of an online resource devoted to a description of all biodiversity and the classification/description thereof. It’s ambitious, I would say (1.8 million species!). More ...
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Declining Migrations
2008-01-03 10:03:00 Just heard about it - a book devoted to migrations themselves - No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations. Carl Zimmer has a review that is inspiring me to buy the book, on the NY Times.
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More on massacring birds in Cyprus
2007-12-25 21:22:00 By way of GrrlScientist, I heard this latest statistic in the news: Illegal trappers on Cyprus killed more than half a million protected birds this fall for sale at local restaurants, conservationists said. It was the worst massacre in four years and came despite a European Union ban on the decades-old tradition, said BirdLife Cyprus ...
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Horrible treatment of birds in Cyprus
2007-12-23 19:47:00 Two men charged with Cyprus falcon massacre: Two men have been charged in connection with the October 5 massacre of 52 Red-footed Falcons Falco vespertinus in the Phasouri area of Cypus, within the Akrotiri British Sovereign Base Area (SBA). The accused, from the Limassol area, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a penalty of ...
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Circuitry models for planning wildlife corridors
2007-12-20 20:36:00 Innovative model connects circuit theory to wildlife corridors: Scientists at Northern Arizona University and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis have developed a model that uses circuit theory to predict gene flow across landscapes. Their approach could give managers a better way to identify the best spots for wildlife corridors, which are crucial to ...
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Ecosystem Restoration
2007-12-11 21:25:00 Audubon has an action item out, asking legislators to fully fund ecosystem restoration, including: Everglades: $243 Million Great Lakes: $156 Million Long Island Sound: $10 Million Mississippi River: $35 Million Louisiana Coastal Wetlands: $500 Million That’s a drop in the bucket, not even amounting to a billion dollars.
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Climatic Impacts on Ocean Ecosystems
2007-11-20 16:46:00 Climatic impacts on ocean ecosystems: A study of climate variability and conservation oceanography That’s the title of my wife’s dissertation. Her public defense will be on Monday, December 3rd, at 1:30pm, in 2146 Snee Hall at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). She’ll be talking about her two projects. The first one has been on ...
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Navigating by Sight During Bird Migration
2007-10-01 21:13:00 Neuronal tracing reveals that Cluster N receives input through the thalamofugal visual pathway. Schematic side view of the bird’s brain indicating the locations of tracer application. Retrograde tracer (BDA, shown in green) was iontophoretically applied into Cluster N (shown in magenta). Anterograde tracer (CtB, shown in red) was injected into the vitreous of the contralateral ...
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Saving Rare Petrels from Rising Seas
2007-09-25 02:41:00 From Audubon Magazine comes a striking article about Seeking Higher Ground: Ornithologists were shocked by the rediscovery of the [Bermuda petrels, called cahow by the locals because of their eerie cries] in the early 1950s?three centuries after it was presumed extinct?when a handful of the birds were found holding out in the wave-sculpted substrate of several ...
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Keeping Tabs on Mass Extinction
2007-09-13 21:49:00 The 2007 Red List is out with the hard number crunching on our mass extinction in-progress. 16,306 of 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction, reports the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The total number of known extinct species now stands at 785, while a further 65 are only found in captivity or ...
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Online Bird Migration Educational Tool from Audubon
2007-09-03 15:16:00 Audubon has a neat (and fun!) game to help people learn about bird migration and conservation: In the spring and the fall, many birds fly long distances in search of food, water, shelter and space: the same basic things that you need to survive. Along these routes, they encounter many different types of habitats, from country ...
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Navy Sonar Hurts Whales, but ?We?re at War?
2007-09-01 02:12:00 Via CNN, the Post and the NY Times: National security interests outweigh the possible harm to marine life, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined in overturning a judge’s order banning the practice.” “The public does indeed have a very considerable interest in preserving our natural environment and especially relatively scarce ...
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Last Wild Whooping Cranes Threatened by Development
2007-08-30 19:28:00 Via Audubon: The only wild flock of endangered Whooping Cranes in the world is at risk. A development plan near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge could destroy the habitat they need to survive. These endangered birds depend on finding safe wintering and feeding grounds at Aransas Refuge. But a development project might change all that. Seadrift Ranch ...
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Pacific Shorebird Migration Project
2007-08-24 18:39:00 Wow - Alaska shorebird migration is indeed cool. From the Pacific Shorebird Migration Project, which is: …an international, collaborative study using the latest remote sensing technology to fill key information gaps on how the tribe Numeniini, to which godwits and curlews belong, migrate within and across continents. During 2007-2008, four species (Bar-tailed Godwit, Hudsonian Godwit, Bristle-thighed Curlew, ...
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