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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. The authors themselves, Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman, are professors at Western Carolina University, a state university in Cullowhee, North Carolina.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. Throughout the next three full days I would experience all of the jobs that go along with proper bird banding.

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Kite Running

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The name has always seemed to apply to a rather motley group of birds, from the exquisite Scissor-tailed Kite of east Africa, to the grotesque Hook-billed Kite of Central America, and various and sundry examples in between. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. This is a bird that does not mess around.