Tag Archives: migration

Red Knot | a tiny bird whose migration boggles the mind

Posted on November 16, 2011 by aranyak

A flock of Red Knots at Mispillion Harbor, Delaware. Credit: Gregory Breese/USFWS, via flickr.com Via Ecolog-L, I just came across this episode of the One Species at a Time podcast from the Encyclopedia of Life, which I have now added to … Continue reading →

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Born to Travel – BirdLife’s Flyways Campaign

Posted on September 12, 2011 by aranyak

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Born to Move – a review of Great Migrations, part 1

Posted on November 7, 2010 by aranyak

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/satellite/satelliteEmbedPlayer.swf Of all the fascinating areas of natural history and animal behavior, perhaps the one closest to my heart (even if my current research isn’t exactly focused on it) is Migration: the systematic movement of populations of animals from one … Continue reading →

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Great Migrations begin on National Geographic TV tomorrow…

Posted on November 6, 2010 by aranyak

… well, the new series Great Migrations begins on said television channel tomorrow, in what’s being rolled out as a global event. The migrations themselves have been ongoing spectacularly (and often spectacularly unnoticed by us) for a while now. If you want … Continue reading →

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Teaching an endangered bird its ancestral migratory pathways: a real life “Fly Away Home”

Posted on October 28, 2010 by aranyak

Here’s an inspiring tale of a crazy/passionate/bizarre/creative/extreme effort to save an endangered species – the Northern Bald Ibis: teaching captive-hatched young ones of the species their ancestral migratory pathways by having them follow human foster parents flying in microlight aircraft! … Continue reading →

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GREAT MIGRATIONS: National Geographic’s Global Television Event Starts November 7

Posted on October 7, 2010 by aranyak

I just received the following announcement via email, and thought it worth sharing here. A couple of days ago I also received a pre-screening packet from them with DVDs and a couple of books accompanying the series. I intend to … Continue reading →

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A swift natural wonder in the midst of a megalopolis

Posted on September 25, 2010 by aranyak

If you build it, they will come – isn’t that what they say about real estate? Well, sometimes they come and find real estate (habitat) in whatever it is you may have built for entirely different purposes! Most living organisms … Continue reading →

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Surprising feats of navigation and endurance

Posted on June 5, 2010 by aranyak

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/swfs/AS3Multiloader.swf via nytimes.com Imagine traveling halfway around the world, across the biggest ocean on the planet, under your own muscle power, without GPS, inflight meals, or any of the accoutrements of modern life we may take for granted. And doing … Continue reading →

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Snow Goose Festival in Chico, California

Posted on January 16, 2010 by aranyak

http://www.snowgoosefestival.org/embed/player.swf via snowgoosefestival.org Sounds like a fun weekend up in the northern half of the Central Valley, if you want to head up there in a couple of weeks. And they say they’re even greener this year! I wish I … Continue reading →

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