The best-kept birding secrets of Belgrade

1 month ago | 10,000 Birds

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica...
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Marlin The Cat Speaks Meow & Loves To Fish, But Still Thinks He's A Dog

1 month ago | iHeart Dogs

When you're the youngest kid in a pack of four, you want to be just like your older siblings. But what if you're a cat and your big brothers and sisters are dogs? Then your...
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Little Egret in the Indian Ocean

1 month ago | 10,000 Birds

On our recent walks along Cable Beach checking on the pairs of Pied Oystercatchers that are currently breeding we have often observed a Little Egret. There is only ever one...
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How Many Birders are There, Really?

3 monthes ago | 10,000 Birds

I have previously written about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's estimates regarding the number of birders in the United States. The most recent report was issued in...
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Why Only 10,000 Bird Species?

4 monthes ago | Ornithology

Why are there only 10,000 species of birds when there are 25,000 species of fish and 350,000 species of beetles out of at least 900,000 species of insects. A 1959 paper by G.E...
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Identification of a large dataset of SNPs in hair‐fin anchovy based on RAD‐seq

5 monthes ago | Animal Genetics

Summary Hair‐fin anchovy is an economically important fish distributed in the West Indian Ocean and the Northwest Pacific Ocean. In this study, 154 individuals in eight...
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The flooded landscape continues

5 monthes ago | 10,000 Birds

A few weeks ago I showed you how flooded the station property was on each side of the highway heading south. Well, it did start to dry out a little, but then we got a lot more...
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A high‐density genetic linkage map for Chinese perch using 2.3K genotyping‐by‐sequencing SNPs

6 monthes ago | Animal Genetics

Summary Chinese perch, Siniperca chuatsi , is one of the most commercially important cultured fishes in China. In the present study, a high‐density genetic linkage map of...
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A comparative whole genome sequencing analysis identified a candidate locus for lack of operculum in cultivated gilthead seabream

6 monthes ago | Animal Genetics

Summary The gilthead seabream is commonly used for aquaculture. Despite its great economic value, several problems in its cultivation remain. One of the major concerns is the...
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