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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

10,000 Birds

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. Searching for kiwi is unlike spotlighting that I’ve done while looking for nocturnal animals in the past. They would all be wrong, as New Zealand has no official National Bird.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Specifically, Itcher Tern.

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