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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They were simply sent to Family Court.

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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

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candidates and other seabird field researchers; and crusty boatsmen, some clued-in and some clueless, who guide him in various latitudes. They’re lucky: unlike albatrosses and other seabirds, they are not ship followers and so can mostly avoid guy-lines and nets. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Follow him on Twitter — he’s regularly tweeting great highlights from the research project. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know? Open Jarvis et al.’s Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl.

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An unusual auk baby

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A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy. The Cassin’s Auklets do something else that is very interesting.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. I look forward to more research being done in this field.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies.

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. The first section, Life Between Two Worlds by Tui De Roy is the heart of the book. Magenellic Penguin, parent and child.

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