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Watching Like A Hawk

2018/12/13 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments

It’s Michigan in December, and our sub-tropical Harris’ hawk, Rusty, can’t spend all her time in the outdoor mews. We

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Climate Change Law and Politics Science Wildlife 

Moving Window Averages and Ocean Acidification

2018/02/21 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments co2, ocean acidification, pulses

There’s an interesting study on carbon dioxide effects on ecosystems. I’m trying to lay my hands on the full paper,

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Climate Change Science Wildlife 

Our Changing Oceans

2017/05/292022/02/17 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments

Even people who pay attention to climate change tend to think in terrestrial terms: aridity, extreme weather, crop management changes,

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Wildlife 

Cooperative Hunting by Cuban Boas

2017/05/27 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments animal behavior, hunting

A news item I ran across talked about research showing coordinated hunting by Cuban boas. As someone associating with one

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Acoustics Antievolution Wildlife 

Hunter and Biosonar — Again

2017/05/08 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments biosonar, echolocation

The Discovery Institute featured a post by Cornelius Hunter on how echolocation (biosonar) is a problem for evolution. This has

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Wildlife 

Bunny vs. United

2017/04/26 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments united airlines

United Airlines can’t catch a break. The latest problem reported by the BBC involves the death of a giant rabbit

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Acoustics Science Wildlife 

Repeating the Message: Evidence of Multiple Sound Sources in the Bottlenose Dolphin

2016/08/12 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments biosonar, bottlenose dolphin, cetaceans, denialism, marine mammals, odontocetes, tursiops truncatus, video

A colleague of mine called me this evening to recount a disturbing incident at the Effects of Noise on Aquatic

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Science Wildlife 

Sage Grouse: The Love-Hate Thing Goes On

2016/02/19 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments conservation, endangered species, idaho, sage grouse

Out west, there is a problem. Sage grouse, those iconic sage desert birds, have long had declining populations, mostly due

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Falconry Wildlife 

Another Hawk-Killer in Court

2016/02/192016/02/19 Wesley R. Elsberry 0 Comments

Why am I not surprised this jerk was a pigeon fancier? Prosecutors say Kapusta and another person are pigeon-racing enthusiasts

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Acoustics Law and Politics Science Wildlife 

Marine Mammals: The Smithsonian Magazine Talks About NOC

2014/06/24 Wesley R. Elsberry 1 Comment

Disclosure: I am a researcher who worked with NOC at the US Navy Marine Mammal Program. Smithsonian Magazine ran an

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Raspberry Pi Science Wildlife 

Raspberry Pi: An Update on Sound

2013/05/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

Life has been a bit demanding lately, so it has been a while since I last worked on the Raspberry

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Computation Science Wildlife 

Population Modeling in Python

2012/10/082021/05/28 Wesley R. Elsberry

One of the courses I enjoyed most in my Ph.D. program was taught by Prof. Kirk Winemiller on population dynamics.

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Acoustics Computation Pocket PC Wildlife 

Getting to an Inexpensive Audio Datalogger

2012/07/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

Well, I spent my Saturday morning programming a C# application for Windows Mobile 5 to periodically record audio. I was

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Acoustics Computation Electronics Raspberry Pi Science Wildlife 

Not Everything is Easy in the Land of Raspberry Pi

2012/06/022012/06/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

I had the chance to work with my Raspberry Pi some more late last night and this morning. Quite a

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Acoustics Computation Science Wildlife 

Raspberry Pi First Run

2012/05/31 Wesley R. Elsberry

I checked the UPS tracking number periodically today. My Raspberry Pi was marked as delivered at about 2:30 today. When

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Florida Law and Politics Science Wildlife 

Official Interference in Biology

2012/05/30 Wesley R. Elsberry

We’ve heard tales of officialdom greasing the way for people to profit over the consideration of species and ecosystems. Now

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Acoustics Science Wildlife 

Personal Research and the Budget

2012/05/14 Wesley R. Elsberry

Diane and I are working on a personal project to put together an acoustic sampling system that could yield information

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Law and Politics Wildlife 

The Cattleman’s Sage Grouse Rant

2012/03/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

An op-ed piece by Mike Deering, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Director of Communications, lays out an argument to let

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Education Media Science Wildlife 

No One Expects the Comparative Anatomist

2012/01/09 Wesley R. Elsberry

Upcoming television series on PBS: Inside Nature’s Giants, begins January 18th at 10 PM. Professor Joy Reidenberg is an unlikely

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Science Wildlife 

SMM 2011: Sirenian Workshop

2011/11/27 Wesley R. Elsberry

I’m attending the Society for Marine Mammalogy biennial conference this year. The location is the Tampa Convention Center, making this

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