Its "citizen scientists" logged common species, and also found creatures previously undetected in the area.
Many people spotted more blackbirds and song thrushes, and other less common species.
Once a common species in Britain, ospreys were all but extinct by 1916, but their numbers have since increased thanks to conservation efforts.
In the summer of 2005, Charlie Miller was working in his living room when he discovered a hackable vulnerability in a common species of server software.
But cloning is fraught with difficulty: fewer than 5% of eggs from common laboratory species result in live births.
The ITPGRFA has two major aims: to prevent the loss of underused crops and ensure the full diversity of common crop species is maintained.
In other studies high levels of the same gene lengthened the lives of worms and fruit flies, a hint that sir2 might be part of an ancient survival program common to many species.
Co-operation of a sort among different animal species is also quite common, though not very surprising, since members of different species are not generally competing with each other for food, still less for sexual partners.
The common blue was among the species worse affected, with just 269 sightings compared with 748 during the previous year.
Since the last common ancestor of the two species lived more than 400, 000 years ago (see following story) fire-control is probably at least as old as that, for they lived in different parts of the world, and so could not have copied each other.
Evolution as fact refers to the historical reality that species are related through common ancestry.
But this sort of whole-genome sequencing, which has so far been completed on five bacteria, should allow a much better understanding of how bacteria work, what they have in common, and what makes individual species unique.
The Bahamas switched overnight from protecting their raccoons to setting up programmes to eradicate them when a look at the genetic evidence showed the animals were common Northern raccoons, not a separate species.
It has been known for some time, for example, that Eristalis intricarius and Volucella pellucens, two European species of hoverfly that are poor mimics of bumblebees in general, and do not resemble any particular species, are widespread and common.
There are two other species of wombat, the common (or bare-nosed) wombat, which is not endangered and is found on the southeastern coast of Australia (in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and the southern hairy nosed wombat, which is endangered and is found in arid, sandy pockets in the southern part of Australia (in South Australia and Western Australia).
BBC: Protecting a wombat species that is as fast as Usain Bolt
An issue of dispute is whether the dunes sagebrush lizard in question is truly a separate species, or rather, a common sagebrush lizard subspecies.
Other small carnivores caught on camera were the Sunda stink-badger (Mydaus javanensis), and two species of mongoose, the very common Short-tailed mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus) and the Collared mongoose (H. semitorquatus), and all three Bornean otter species, the Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata), Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) and the extremely elusive Hairy-nosed otter, considered to be the world's rarest otter.
BBC: Earth News - Rare Otter civet filmed for first time in Borneo
Just over half of the bacteria found in the skin samples belonged to species that were already known to be common - Propionibacteria, Corynebacteria, Staphylococcus and Streptococcus.
The large game species, including lion and leopard, are relatively common, and the birdlife is prolific.
The two species had lived separately since splitting off from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, 160, 000 years earlier.
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.
As in the case of Dr Read's turtles, this is helping scientists to devise ways of protecting rare species in an efficient manner, without interfering too much with the exploitation of common ones.
Fruits and vegetables have lost their seasons and have been supplemented by exotic species, and once-scarce foods such as salmon and venison have become more common.
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