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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. Nicole: Glad you liked it! Renato: Wow, these birds are truly cosmopolitan.

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Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

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A 2006 paper by Albrecht Manegold pointed out two additional morphological similarities, the modification of the last phalange of the birds’ toes to a nail-like structure (visible on a flamingo foot here and a grebe foot here ) and a characteristic of certain vertebrae. In 2012 came an exciting new discovery: a fossilized nest.

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