State of U.S. birds report is “‘a clarion call to action”
The U.S. is home to an amazing 800 species of birds, but nearly a third of those species are endangered, threatened or in decline. That’s the news from “The U.S. State of the Birds, 2009”—the most comprehensive study ever of the health of North American birds, released today. The data are a warning sign about [...]
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Shoot To Kill or Aim To Embarrass?
October 5th, 2012 |
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As I’ve pointed out before on Symbiartic, before the modern naturalist movement, nature lovers would shoot and kill the objects of their fancy to get a better look. Audubon himself would take dead specimens and pin them into life-like poses before drawing them and turning them into the prints that are so treasured today. But [...]
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Your Chance to Own a Piece of Natural History
Just as my parents can recall their first television sets and marvel at how I have never known life without it, and we can all remember our first cell phone while our children ping from iPhone to iPad and think nothing of video chatting with friends thousands of miles away, it’s hard for most of [...]
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December 19th, 2011 |
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This week’s scoop, pluuuuuuus a holiday gift guide for the sciart fans in your life: SCIART LECTURES/EVENTS **NEW** The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (online & Philadelphia, PA) | Audubon Bird of the Day | Every Weekday at 3:15 pm, visitors can come into the Library to watch the daily page turning of [...]
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