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tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers. Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004. West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #5 as seen at NYC's…

tags: researchblogging.org, birdsong, personality traits, mate choice, sexual selection, risk taking, European collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis, László Zsolt Garamszegi Male European collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis, singing. Image: Beijershamn Ãland, 23 May 2004 [link]. Canon EOS…

tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day Long-billed curlew, Numenius americanus, stretching, at Bolivar Flats, Texas. This bird is in breeding plumage. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July 2008 [larger view]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera…

tags: researchblogging.org, reciprocal altruism, cooperation, anti-predator behavior, mobbing, birds, pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, Indrikis Krams Male European pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, singing. SkÃ¥ne, Sweden. Image: Omar Brännström, 8 May 2005 [link]. Canon EOS 1D Mark II…

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers. Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004. West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #4 as seen at NYC's…

tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day Compare this species to the two previous images of the day. The long-billed curlew is a larger relative of the whimbrel. Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus at Bolivar Flats, Texas. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July…

tags: researchblogging.org, melanosomes, plumage color, feather color, fossil preservation, birds, dinosaur, Jakob Vinther Male Red-bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus. Image: Ken Thomas (Wikipedia) [larger view]. When looking at paintings and reconstructions of fossil birds and dinosaurs…

tags: researchblogging.org, evolution, flatfish, Amphistium, Heteronectes, transitional fossils, missing link, Matt Friedman During the development of extant flatfishes, such as this plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, one eye has migrated round the head to lie on the same side as the other. So these…

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004. West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #3 as seen at NYC's…

tags: Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus, birds, nature, Image of the Day Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus at Bolivar Flats, Texas. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 July 2008 [larger view]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.

tags: researchblogging.org, female scientists, science publishing, double-blind review, single-blind review, cultural observation, gender bias, sexism, feminism A microbiologist at work. Image: East Bay AWIS. A few months ago, a controversy occurred in the blogosphere regarding whether…

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004. West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 2] as seen at…

tags: Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus, birds, nature, Image of the Day I love shorebirds, and I miss seeing them every year. Besides being beautiful to look at and fascinating to watch, shorebirds remind me of my travels to Japan, where I saw 17 new species of birds (all shorebirds, and all in breeding…

Have any of you started a project that you thought would take ten minutes to complete, only to find that the project has morphed into a huge and tangled event that has taken over your entire life? I am trapped in the middle of such a project right now. [Image source: Half the deck]. This project…

tags: The Jedi Gym, The Quiddich Gym, humor, silliness, streaming video This is funny -- Darth Vader drops in to the first Jedi Gym to ever be started in the world, and he ruins everything. The survivors, though, refuse to admit defeat: they gather together and start a Quiddich Gym. Harry Potter…

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers. Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004. West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 1] as seen…

tags: Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, birds, nature, Image of the Day Eyes on the Prize. Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, eyes a butterfly. Image: Dave Rintoul, July 2008 [larger view].

tags: Birds in the News, BirdNews, ornithology, birds, avian, newsletter Canyon Towhee, Pipilo fuscus, in Chaco Canyon. Image: Dave Rintoul, June 2008 [larger view]. News of Birds in Science According to an article that was just published in the journal BioScience, penguin populations are…

tags: eggshell carvings, art, Taiwanese artist, streaming video I think of eggshells as beautiful natural objects, but a Taiwanese artist sees them as raw materials for his artwork -- even though this video is in Chinese, I think it is fascinating nonetheless [3:23]

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Most of the artworks at this station are too large to photograph, so I have broken them up into smaller pictures, all of which should be correctly labeled as "…

tags: emergency pet care, hospitals, companion pet issues Elektra is one of the survivors. My companion female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis. Image: GrrlScientist, 2 April 2008 [larger view]. I want to talk about something that has bothered me ever since I…

tags: English Elm Tree, Ulmus procera, tree bark, Image of the Day Bark of the English elm tree, Ulmus procera. Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, natural history books, ecology books "One cannot have too many good bird books" --Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927). Here's this week's issue of the Birdbooker Report by Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, which lists ecology, environment, natural…

tags: Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC At last, a new subway platform for you to enjoy looking at! This station was recently renovated with a "retro look" makeover, complete with new plaques and tablets in the…

Since it is a holiday in the USA and my traffic was down, I spent the morning and afternoon doing things, like laundry, which are terribly boring but necessary. After I escaped the laundromat, I ended up roaming the subways and began planning a route so I could photograph the tile mosaic artworks…

tags: White Ash Tree, Fraxinus americana, tree bark, Image of the Day Bark of the white ash tree, Fraxinus americana. Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

tags: Jesse Helms, politics, rethuglicans Image: Orphaned (please contact me so I can properly attribute this image to its photographer). This morning, I learned that America is celebrating its independence from one of the politicians whose goal was to ensure that this country was a colder,…

tags: companion parrots, Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, hawk-headed parrot, red fan parrot, Deroptyus accipitrinus accipitrinus, Friday Parrot Blogging Elektra (left), a 5-year old female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis, and Orpheus…

tags: maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba, tree bark, Image of the Day Bark of the maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba. Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

I have lived with companion animals for my entire life. Cats, dogs, a variety of bird species ranging from finches to chickens, parrots and lories, tropical fish, goldfish and koi, hermit crabs, ants, stick insects, golden hamsters, dwarf hamsters, mice, rats, guinea pigs, bunnies .. and that's…