• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Search results

thxpress_search_the_forum Search Opus
  1. locustella

    From the news: the U.S. wild turkey numbers are decreasing

    The U.S. wild turkey population is on the decline: What’s behind the decline? Roddy Scheer, March 17, 2024 | 11:21 am https://augustafreepress.com/news/the-u-s-wild-turkey-population-is-on-the-decline-whats-behind-the-decline/
  2. locustella

    Observations recording database template for Microsoft Access

    Hello, here: https://darekk.com/db/birds/ are example simple database templates for Microsoft Access for observations. Maybe someone would be interested. In case of incompatibilities of the database with the Microsoft Windows operating system or the Microsoft Access program, you can try to...
  3. locustella

    Bird hunting and egg collecting with paleolithic lunar calendar

    A little off topic, partially about birds. Bacon, B., Khatiri, A., Palmer, J., Freeth, T., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2023). An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-19. doi:10.1017/S0959774322000415...
  4. locustella

    45th session of the UNESCO WHC in Kazan, Russia, postponed

    Only indirectly about nature preservation. The 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Kazan, Russia, scheduled from 19 - 30 June 2022 has been postponed. But why not relocated to Ukraine, at least online ? https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/45COM...
  5. locustella

    Global Big Day (8 May 2021)

    Last year more than 50,000 people from 175 countries submitted 120,000 checklists with eBird. https://ebird.org/news/global-big-day-8-may-2021
  6. locustella

    first cases of coronavirus in Antarctica

    at Chilean research station Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme. The entire crew got inected, 36 people. The have been replaced by new ones. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/covid-cases-recorded-in-antarctica-for-first-time...
  7. locustella

    climate change causes shifts of pied flycatcher and its prey fenology, not matching each other

    Climate change causes shifts of pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) breeding fenology and Lepidoptera fenology (caterpillars abundance). But they don't match each other precisely. This mistiming with the prey can influence reproductive success of birds...
  8. locustella

    climate change, avian malaria and house sparrow decline

    Perhaps sparrow decline is caused by avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.182197
  9. locustella

    Iceberg A68a on collision course with penguins

    (with an island full of i.e. penguins) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iceberg-penguin-island_n_5fd4f786c5b663c37596f9bd?guccounter=1
  10. locustella

    Climate change disrupted mast seeding in European beech Fagus sylvatica

    Now they produce seeds more often, what is disadvantageous. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0592-8 Bogdziewicz, M., Kelly, D., Thomas, P.A. et al. Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. Nat. Plants (2020)...
  11. locustella

    Marine phytoplankton and our miserables lives

    Marine phytoplankton and our miserables lifes It is very likely, that phytoplankton is declining at frightening rate. Because it is main producer of the oxygen on Earth, we can suffocate one day (?). As a result of pollution of oceans. Although global warming is indicated as a probable cause of...
  12. locustella

    Amazon deforestation increased rapidly in August

    by 278% in August in comparison to August 2018. https://www.livescience.com/66120-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-bolsonaro.html
  13. locustella

    Record high temperatures in Australia

    Highest temperatures on record in Australia. Not only some people landed in hospitals, but also many bats have died and fruit orchards got spoiled. https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/australia-boils-in-record-breaking-heat/ar-BBSpyJd?li=BBr8HnF
  14. locustella

    Humans are parasites of the Earth - more facts

    Since the 1500s, humans caused extinction of well over 80% mammal species in the Atlantic forest biome in eastern South America: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/over-half-of-atlantic-forests-mammals-disappeared-in-last-500-years/...
  15. locustella

    Rhino poachers eaten by lions

    (sad) Rhino poachers eaten by lions in the South African Sibuya game reserve https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/lion-eat-rhino-poachers-south-africa-sibuya-game-reserve-hunting-ivory-trade-a8433066.html https://www.treehugger.com/animals/rhino-poachers-eaten-lions-south-africa.html...
  16. locustella

    Spider ID

    May 6th, Warsaw. It was walking on the ground. Probably very common species. Could anyone take a look at this image ? Thank you in advance. Edited later: Someone recognized it as Pardosa sp.
  17. locustella

    Some recent symptomes of the climate change illness

    Some recent symptomes of the climate change Earth illness This is such international, global forum, so about that boring global warming and other climate changes. Gulfstream weakest ever: http://www.dw.com/en/gulf-stream-system-at-weakest-point-in-1600-years/a-43348456...
  18. locustella

    The common midwife toad range in the past

    Would anyone take a look at this: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25855#page/576 and check, whether they say about occurrence of the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) in current Poland (approx. east of the S-N line of the Oder river) ? (pages 562-567 in the book, 576-580 in pdf)...
  19. locustella

    Many bird species on the brink of extinction

    Many species of birds on the brink of extinction Black-legged kittiwake, snowy owl, antipodean albatross, cape gannet, dalmatian pelican and others. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42314289
  20. locustella

    More and more beavers in the tundra

    Numbers of invasive beaver ponds increase, what can threaten the permafrost: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/invading-beavers-turn-tundra-to-ponds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fecology+%28Topic%3A+Ecology%29
  21. locustella

    2017 Atlantic hurricane season

    2017 Atlantic hurricane season seems to be very intense. Especially due to ongoing unusually strong and larger than Florida hurricane Irma, which in days will reach that state.. This is very boring, but perhaps that can have something to do with global warming ? There were also very heavy winds...
  22. locustella

    UK dormice endangered

    because their numbers decreased by 70%: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/dormice-extinction-risk-endangered-species-animals-rodents-numbers-plummet-72-per-cent-21-years-a7800551.html
  23. locustella

    Natural fires are beneficial events for forest ecosystems

    here is about spotted owls: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531084456.htm http://www.wildnatureinstitute.org/spotted-owl.html Bark beetle outbreaks creating mosaic are beneficial for ecosystems too.
  24. locustella

    Trump is going to withdraw USA from Paris climate agreement

    It has not happen yet officially, but this is almost sure according to many RSS news. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40108659 http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/59RWE1eBoL8/us-usa-climatechange-trump-idUSKBN18R1J4
  25. locustella

    Great Barrier Reef is lost

    actually, according to some experts. It can't be saved because of i.e. very rapid climate warming: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/great-barrier-reef-dying-coral-bleaching-global-warming-australia-climate-change-a7761351.html
Back
Top