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What I Did for Love

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All of which kind of turns human behavior on its head. But then again, we’re not quite lovebirds. Migrating gals also tend to be duller than their sisters who reside in the tropics, because their love affairs tend to be more fling than everlasting. News behavioral research color feeding Great Tits passerines

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Ethiopia’s Endemics

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Black-winged Lovebird Another endemic now shared with Eritrea, this cute little parrot is not uncommon in forest edges and woodlands, even occurring in towns and cities. They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior.

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Prolonging Revenge Through Reincarnation: The Paintings of the Mincing Mockingbird, Volume III

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If this sounds a bit too elevated for a bird, rest assured that many of these paintings and captions are commentaries on issues very relevant to the subjects themselves.

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Introducing the African Birding Beat

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Birding here is a joy, further augmented by the world’s most intact mammalian megafuana, fascinating tribal cultures, breath-taking scenery and the cradle of human history. Nowhere in the world are birds as colorful, easy to see and abundant as in Africa! And Africa is the ONLY continent without an extinct bird to boot!

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Black-winged Lovebird – Agapornis taranta. Rainbow Lorikeet – Trichoglossus haematodus. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2016. 20 Feb 2016. 14 Sep 2016.

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