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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

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There is no excuse for putting a banner photo like this on a renowned birding site. So here’s the rest of it, complete with veering, zigzagging, and the eventual abandonment of the original topic altogether, which is what happens when you put rehabbers together in August. We do real birds.”. You raptor people!”

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The Bird With Four Sexes

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So, in a simple version of the world of a bird, there are two sexes, male and female, and males chose females and females chose males as mates. They form and have lots of genes on them, but over time, all the non sex-related genes abandon the chromosome. This is a simple question with a complicated answer. Two things, really.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Mauritius may sound familiar, it was also the home of one of our most famous extinct birds—the Dodo. Don’t these birds care about propagating their species? I know, that’s harsh.

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

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And over the last few years actual paper books have been making the leap onto devices, and, specifically for this review, tablets and smartphones, in a manner that reminds one of rats on a proverbial sinking ship. The question is, can a bird guide actually make the jump and still work in a field situation?

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