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

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. Of the 169 books and articles listed, 120, 70%, were published between 2011 and 2022.) The photographs are actually in color in my Kindle edition but reproduced in black-and-white on the book’s Amazon page.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia watches him in half-amusement, then raises and gives a low, bull-like roar, provoking the lapwings to an excited screech, makes a few steps and lies down. The other two are motionless.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. Less than 200 singing males were found in the 1987 census, and this was 20 years after it had been placed on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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The templates can be discovered by raising birds in the absence of adult song, and they often sound very little like the normal final product. The bottom two are the songs of individuals raised in isolation, representing only their “built-in&# template unaffected by the experience of hearing normal adults. London: John Murray.

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