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For the Love of Trogons

10,000 Birds

It is also fascinating to see how similar Old World trogons look to their New World relatives, right down to the same flamboyant color patterns. It has an odd call that sounds vaguely like a barking dog, which I cannot imitate.

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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population. Second chances like this are the stuff of legend.

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On Google, HSUS and Fur

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Many bloggers who are pro-animal rights have either not used Google's AdSense or stopped because they discovered that, for instance, their anti-fur post was surrounded by ads for fur. I used to support the Animal Rights Zone until I discovered that my posts were often surrounded by fur ads. They're not hiding anything.)

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. What a horror! What a disaster!

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South Africa’s endemic birds

10,000 Birds

Greater Double-collared Sunbird (right) is less common and more localized than its smaller cousin. Here he kept up his birding and one of his local patches was an urban field hockey ground where he used to walk his dogs on a regular basis. My home country of South Africa can only be described as a birding paradise!

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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

10,000 Birds

The second section of the book, The Present, describes the current state of research on the Kirtland’s Warbler in the form of you-are-there stories about projects investigating the bird’s nesting success requirements and diet, both in Michigan and the Bahamas. Those of us who contemplate the trip need to know how to do it right.

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