The Torkel Saga 2059: November 2017

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UC Davis Avian Science After
Avian Science 15 – Raptor Biology
Owl Paper (KE Torkelson, 1984)

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Fun Up Front - Starr Ranch – See Live Owl(s) Streaming

http://www.starrranch.org/

Jan 20, 2017 - Live Barn Owl Cam

“Starr Ranch is a 4,000 acre Audubon California sanctuary in southeast Orange County, California. Our mission is to offer innovative approaches to land management and environmental education that will influence the way Orange County citizens appreciate, conserve, and manage wild-lands. We seek to instill a love of nature through education programs that involve people of all ages in wildlife research and to provide a model of rigorous, sustainable land management through applied research.”

20171123-TH: Charter Information (Descriptive Metadata)

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Specification	Note	Detail
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Name of the report/paper	The Feeding Strategies of The Common Barn Owl	Featuring Pellet Analysis
Student Description	Undergraduate Avian Science AKA Bird Biology	Keith Torkelson
Date of the Assessment	March 8 1984	Paper
Class (Course)	Avian Sciences (AVS) 15	Raptor Biology Biology of Raptors
School	The University of California Regents	At Davis
Teacher – Associate Professor	Wesley Weathers	Confusing – Deduction was 0.5 – Awarded an “A”
Who was the exam for?	Us our cohort	About 15 students
What does the exam evaluate?	Rubric Provided	If grammar and formatted were assessed we would give us a “B”
How was the paper delivered?	We typed it by Hand	On paper
Insight Brief	[SEE BELOW]
Length	2 ½ Pages of Text Est. number of words (600)	1 Table 1 Page Literature Cited
Why share?	Digital Preservation	Library of Great Memories
Blog	The Torkelson Saga
Appendix	None
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Last Reviewed: 20171123-TH: [ThorsThursday! - UC Davis Avian Science 15 Undergraduate Paper

Grade 10 – “Big” Adams – Marine Biology

After we Aced Mr. Adams Oceanography class in Ninth Grade were selected Marine Biology for the Biology requirement. While Oceanography address more the physical aspects of the world oceans, Marine Biology addressed life. The feature each we was copying the taxonomy for representative species. Actually we also included our interpretive drawing of each representative species. I think we still have on or two. This applies here to “The Owl Paper” and Raptor Biology because taxonomy was also at the core for the course. This was the first time we saw Wendy J Stoffers in a class. Our strengths in the tenth grade were Geometry, Marine Biology, and World History & Art. Our high school “Love” Wendy fits into Marine Biology indirectly. At one point “Big” Adams placed Theresa Wallace between Rob Tryon and us. After assessing our behavior, Theresa referred us to Wendy J Stoffers.

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Applied Marine Biology – Taxonomy – Impression

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Prior Knowledge and Experience with Raptors

While working at Bell & Howell assigned to the Warehouse a Borrowing Owl became trapped inside. I was ask and given time to catch it. The warehouse ceiling was about thirty feet high. After about three days if was flying about at the ten foot level. On Thursday or Friday it made a break at about five feet above the floor. I grabbed a towel and caught it in flight. I called Laguna Beach (Canyon) Veterinary. They said bring it in we will check it out and release it in “The Canyon”. We were approved to drive the company car and drop it off.

Limelight Nutrition - Swansons’s Hawk

“Swainson's hawk, is a large Buteo hawk of the Falconiformes, sometimes separated in the Accipitriformes like its relatives. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist. Wikipedia”

“Swainson's hawk is probably the longest migrant of any North American raptor. The flight from breeding ground to South American pampas in southern Brazil or Argentina can be as long as 14,000 mi (23,000 km). Each migration can last at least two months. They leave the breeding grounds from August to October.”

Hearsay AVS Nutrition Class

Professor Pran Vohra offered up the Swainson’s Hawk (SH) as an example for Metabolic Water. He indicated the while on the 14,000 mile migration they landed atypically few times to drink water. When flying over ocean because the SH lacked a salt gland they did not drink. The solution he presented was the survived of off metabolic water.

Partial Solution – Beta Oxidation

“Glucose offers a ratio 6.3 moles of ATP per carbon while saturated fatty acids offer 8.1 ATP per carbon. Also the complete oxidation of fats yields enormous amounts of water for those organisms that do not have adequate access to drinkable water. Oct 25, 2016”

Fat Burning

We were just thinking that if a SH and a human were burning relatively the same amount of fat humans still need to drink relatively more water (H2O). We suggest that this is because humans have to urinate whereas birds in general do not urine. Birds produce a solid (uric acid) to rid the waste that humans eliminate via urination.

AVS 15 – Fieldtrip

After working with the AVS Departments Bestiary of Raptor samples we gained a foundation in identifying various Raptors. We can’t remember how many fieldtrips we had in AVS 15. The fieldtrip that we do remember was field identification of local raptors. So off we go into the Yolo County field and farm grid. I think we saw at least three raptor species. It was the Red Tail Hawks that impressed us most. Along the road and parallel to it there were utility poles. As we drove by pole after pole each had a Red Tail Hawk on it. Apparently these Hawks had solved their issues with territoriality. Each had a circle of influence centered about their perches.

FYI - Department of Animal Science - UC Davis

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/

http://aviansciences.ucdavis.edu/

Avian Sciences Graduate Group

1249 Meyer Hall

One Shields Avenue - Davis, CA 95616-5294

Phone: (530) 752-2382

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5 Star Scale – 5.0 Star Best

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#	Specification	Weathers Star	Borella Star	Note
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	Overall Quality (Approximate)	3.5	4.4	Scored for Items 1-6

1	Would Take Again	4.0	5.0	If younger we probably would take Mineralogy w Borella
2	Level of Difficulty	4.5	5.0	Borella suicide system
	Hotness	N/A	N/A
3	Tough Grader	4.0	4.0	W – Used Rubrics B – Used Practice Questions
4	Amazing Lectures	4.5	4.5	B- Amazing Labs
5	Hilarious	4.0	4.0	Neither are super funny
6	Lecture Syllabus	0.0	4.0

	AVG (Stars)	3.5	4.4
	Overall Quality (CALC)	21.0/30 = 70.0%	26.5/30 = 88.3

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