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What is a Jackbird?

10,000 Birds

The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. Conservationists pioneering translocation to a safe island managed to save the saddlback , but not the others.

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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) series which has been distilled into handbooks that can be easily carried into the field. Christoph Schwitzer & Wes Sechrest Weight 0.4 kg Dimensions 14 × 22.8

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series which has been distilled into portable books that can be easily carried into the field. cm Weight 0.4

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Homage to Catalonia

10,000 Birds

Through the Rat-penat houses, enveloped in their lush green gardens, the road winds up the edge of a limestone gorge towards the Garraf nature park (pronounced a bit like barking, garrrrAf). The dirt road winds along hillsides, next to vineyards and through the pine forest with a lot of bat boxes. Enough is enough.

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Catalonian Spring

10,000 Birds

Through the Rat-penat houses, enveloped in their lush green gardens, the road winds up the edge of a limestone gorge towards the Garraf natural park (pronounced a bit like barking, garrrrAf). The dirt road winds along hillsides, next to vineyards and through the pine forest with a lot of bat boxes. Enough is enough.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

For instance, I can lay my hands on data for primates and rodents (because I’ve collected those data for research) but I don’t have comparable data for bovids (just selected data) and zero data for birds (in spreadsheets on my computer). To remedy this, I visited the Animal Diversity Web site at the University of Michigan.

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