10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2014
Together, these birds compose the family Alcidae , and they share adaptations that we recognize as penguin-like: an upright stance on land, black-and-white plumage, and — most important — wings that propel them underwater in pursuit of prey ( see them in action here ). See Cairns et al.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). British edition: Viking Press (Penguin), March 2022, ISBN: 9780241460498, £13.00. Princeton Univ.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
’s landmark 2008 paper ) in the context of each other. This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds. Mayr quite reasonably argues that both approaches can produce false results by failing to eliminate uninformative similarities (e.g.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
But there is one Cape bird that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to character – the African Penguin. An African Penguin peers protectively around its fluffy chick. All it takes is a trip to Boulders Beach in Cape Town to get up close and personal with these comical penguins.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
For much more, see The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius (PDF). Here’s a video explanation of how early reconstructions got the bird all wrong, and here are more contemporary reconstructions: a painting by Julian Pender Hume and side-by-side new and old models. I also find this model compelling.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
Last month woodpeckers, this month penguins. None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). The introductory Penguin Who’s Who introduces each species visually.
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