Having built several bird feeders for different purposes, I have found that observing how the birds use the feeders and collect more data which helps to understand their behaviour. There have been many experimental studies on bird feeder, not only to learn about the habits of birds, but also to train them to provide services. Birds are very intelligent than specially...
There are a number of regular bird surveys carried out in the UK. For example, Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), The Garden Nesting Survey (GNS) are the projects involving citizen science concept. These projects invite everyone to become a citizen scientist and contribute their data. The data collected will be analysed by professionals in order to monitor the bird population, address the...
As mentioned in previous article, I was excited to start putting a bird feeder outside my window and DIY my own bird feeder, which is up to version 4 right now. Other than design of the bird feeder, bird food is a very important factor to attract birds. There are mainly four types of bird food: seeds, suet, peanuts and mealworms....
The number of birds decline gradually, including many well known and loved species such as the song thrush, skylark, lapwing and house sparrow. Most of the declining species are farmland birds. This phenomenon has not only happened in the UK, birds in the United States and Canada also have fallen by 29 percent since 1970. The disappearance of the birds is mainly...
When I newly arrived the UK, I noticed that there are lots of different types of bird feeders selling in Poundland and Wilko. It is the first time heard about bird feeders. Hence, I did some search about bird feeders and found out that according to Biological Conservation, 87% of the UK homes have bird feeders. Each household spent around £0.35...
帶學生參加了三次英特爾國際科學與工程大獎賽（Intel ISEF），三次學生也遇到很好的翻譯，在比賽日幫上很大的忙。因此，也下了決心報名當廣東話翻譯員幫助其他學生。大家可能會覺得香港學生都是用英語學習的，為什麼要翻譯員呢？那不是太小看學生的能力吧？香港學生一般都可流利用英語進行問辯，可是當評委用比較帶地區性的用字時，或一些評委的第一語言並非英語，那在溝通上便可能會出現一點障礙了。
Recent Comments