10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

” But the tanager brand is changing. A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift.

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2003 Sparrows Family South America 210

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

We find reasons to praise Darwin on this blog all the time and explain why in this post, first published in 2009. Sometimes we have good days where we discover a long-lost friend or a brand-new one. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth , which nature lovers everywhere should celebrate joyously.

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