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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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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science.

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Vote Now for Awesome Ornithology Projects!

10,000 Birds

Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. My research proposal “ Towards a mechanistic understanding of feather colors ”, investigates the genetic basis for color patterns in birds. Birding juncos manakins ornithology science' To win, we need your votes! My Project.

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