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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

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I do wish there was a note somewhere indicating where they can be found, maybe in the table of contents or a separate listing of comparative plates or even the Index. Users may use the Table of Contents or the Index to locate introductory chapters and Species Accounts.

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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

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(Emptied of their contents, of course.). It comprised eight short talks on subjects ranging from investigations into the genetics of magnetic receptors for navigation, to the use of eBird and other “citizen science” crowdsourcing efforts in studying migrant phenology.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

Years of follow-up research conducted by one of Earthwatch’s principal investigators on the Tambopata Macaw project, Dr. Don Brightsmith, shows, however, that within the study area of the clay lick the birds tend to choose the soil with the highest sodium content over soils that are best for neutralizing toxins.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

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DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae.