Sentences with phrase «migratory bird center»

From the article:... «It goes against my deepest notions of how fast ecosystem recovery can possibly happen,» Christopher Tonra, a research fellow with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C., told the Seattle Times.

International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD) was created by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in the early 1990s and is now coordinated by Environment for the Americas, a nonprofit dedicated to bird conservation.

The book's authors are Peter Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and writer Chris Santella.

Director of the Smithsonian Institute Migratory Bird Center Peter Marra points out reliable estimates of unconfined cat populations are as difficult to formulate as, well, herding cats.

A national debate has simmered since a 2013 study by the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion small mammals annually in the United States.

Catbird Mortalities Referring to research conducted by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's Peter Marra, Butler contends that «cats caused 79 percent of deaths of juvenile catbirds in the suburbs of Washington, DC.»

Marra told Mullins that the postdoctoral fellowship Dauphiné landed with the Migratory Bird Center was, to use Mullins» words, «one of the world's most selective fellowship programs» and that «Dauphiné was the admissions committee's top choice.»

[1] Since then, Marra, who's been with the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Biology Institute since 1999 and now runs its Migratory Bird Center, has only become more desperate.

Once again, the Smithsonian has apparently put marketing (and perhaps politics, too) ahead of science, reviving a story first posted on the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's (SMBC) Website in October of last year (which has since been removed).

According to its website, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is a «national and international leader in the biology and conservation of migratory birds.»

The Migratory Bird Center's Website, too, suggests the outlook for the catbird population is quite good:

According to its Website, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is a «national and international leader in the biology and conservation of migratory birds.»

Among those missing from the conference were the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's Peter Marra, an opponent of TNR whose work I've criticized.

Starting with: How in the hell was Nico Dauphine hired by the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center in the first place?

A researcher at the National Zoo's Migratory Bird Center was charged with animal cruelty for allegedly poisoning stray cats in Columbia Heights this month.

Among the witnesses for the Defense: Peter Marra, Dauphine's advisor at the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center — who's previously described TNR as «essentially cat hoarding without walls.»

The same Nico Dauphine who landed a prestigious position with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (part of the National Zoo), working alongside Peter Marra, conducting research «on [citizen participants»] free - roaming pet domestic cats»?

Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, said rehab centers all over the country find the same thing.

This story is as full of holes as it was last October when the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center tried to sell it to the public.

Tags: biodiversity, birds, conservation, conservation biology, mammals, Migratory Bird Center, migratory birds, Smithsonian's National Zoo

To learn more, a team of scientists at the Smithsonian's Migratory Bird Center studied the gray catbird (Dumatella carolinensis) in three suburban Maryland areas outside of Washington, D.C. — Bethesda, Opal Daniels and Spring Park.

According to authors Anne L. Balogh, Thomas B. Ryder, and Peter P. Marra (all of whom are affiliated with the Migratory Bird Center), the Opal Daniels and Spring Park sites accounted for 34 of 42 total juvenile mortalities.

(Late last year, co-author Peter Marra earned his Propaganda Badge via a Washington Post article, though the research findings he cited there have since been removed from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's website.)

I haven't seen a statement anything more official looking from the National Zoo or the Migratory Bird Center.

Once they had the data, Segre's labmate, postdoc Roslyn Dakin, now at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C., developed sophisticated software with her colleagues to analyze them.

According to a new study by biologists at Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, the offspring of a certain songbird, the wood thrush, are more likely to survive drought in larger forest plots that offer plenty of shade and resources.

Tonra, previously with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, worked with Kimberly Sager - Fradkin of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Peter Marra of the Smithsonian on both studies.

«Birds are the quintessential canary in a coal mind,» says Peter Marra, a co-author of the report and director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C. «They are a wonderful indicator of environmental health.»

To do that, Dove tapped Peter Marra, an ornithologist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C. Marra studies bird migrations in part by doing a sophisticated chemical analysis of feathers.

These arguments underpin two very different books, Cat Wars by Peter Marra, director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and writer Chris Santella; and The Trainable Cat by biologist John Bradshaw and animal psychologist Sarah Ellis.

In May 2001, five non-profit organizations that work on coffee conservation issues (Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee Production.»

One is Eco-OK program development by the Rainforest Alliance and a network of Latin America environmental organizations, and the other is the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) criteria.

The American Birding Association, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, National Arbor Day Foundation, and the Rainforest Alliance have led a campaign for «shade - grown» and organic Kona coffees, which can be sustainably harvested.

These are all included in the criteria for shade certification by Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (Bird - Friendly) and / or Rainforest Alliance.

I have «caught» some roasters using the Bird - Friendly label (or even the term, which is trademarked by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center) and reported them to Smithsonian, which then in turn contacts the roaster with a cease - and - desist warning.

Now I'd like to post the comments of Bob Rice from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), the developer and guardian of Bird - Friendly certified coffee:

One of C&C's favorite roasters, Caffe Pronto in Maryland, has just received Bird - Friendly certification from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.

A summary table of the criteria used for shade certification by Rainforest Alliance, and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (under the «Bird - Friendly» trademark).

Meanwhile, news from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has announced the first Bird - Friendly certified coffee from the Caribbean, from Spirit Mountain Coffee in the Dominican Republic.

A list of online retailers that regularly sell Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center Bird - Friendly ® - certified coffee is here.

Many of them carry certified organic, Rainforest Alliance, or Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC) Bird - Friendly ® (BF) coffee, some do not.

Both of these certifiers have personnel who are also trained in shade certification, because they are authorized by Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center to perform inspection for their Bird - Friendly certification.

Robert Rice, of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, surveyed 338 owners of coffee farmers in Peru and Guatemala to determine what portion of total income from shaded coffee farms was attributable to non-coffee products derived from the farm.

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has made the most well - known effort to establish criteria for shade grown coffee.

There is usually a fee for the certification itself — to the certifying agency and / or to the organization that developed the standards (i.e., Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center).

The resulting «Survey North American Specialty Kona Industry» indicated the availability of four primary (in order of importance then): Organic, Fair Trade, Bird Friendly (Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center), and Rainforest Alliance.

Organizations that certify shade grown coffee are the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and, in many cases, the Rainforest Alliance.

The term was first introduced in expert meetings convened by the Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Consumer Choice Council (CCC) in 1998.

I recently reviewed a paper, Field - testing ecological and economic benefits of coffee certification programs, that included a nifty summary table of the criteria used for shade certification by Rainforest Alliance, and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (under the «Bird - Friendly» trademark).