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Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

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Since 2001, at least five additional DNA studies have upheld this proposed relationship, and in 2005, George Sangster proposed the name “Mirandornithes” for the flamingo-grebe group, from Latin and Greek roots meaning “wonderful” (also, “admirable”) and “bird.” Zusi and Robert W.

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Château de Colombe: Bordeaux Rosé (2017)

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Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

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So I wasn’t aware there was any controversy about the matter, until I saw a passage in a new monograph on the bird, The Snowy Owl , by Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale. Snowy Owl , Breezy Point, New York, 2012 © Corey Finger. Birds owl owls Snowy Owl taxonomy and systematics' And that’s a marvelous gift.

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