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Backyard Birdfeeder Bragging Rights, a Great Adventure for a Great Twitch, and More: This Week in Birding News

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Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S., Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. sports championships ).

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The Long and the Short of It: Corvid Wings and Morphology

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Scientists are learning, though, exactly how birds in different locations are similar across species. A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B posits that differences in wing shape and size synch up where with birds live. The commonalities appear related to dispersal, but not necessarily to diversification.

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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species.

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Calgary Zoo Feeling Economic Pressure

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They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide?A Book Review

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The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea. It includes a table listing the species, subspecies, author and date of original description, which I found quite handy in sorting out the birds. Introduction.

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Red-throated Loon Parents: We’re not your waiters

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Recent research published in The Auk suggests that these chicks fledge early just so they can get their own grub. Along the way, they braved sleepless nights and sleeping bears.) Evolution often helps ingeniously solve puzzles, and more research is perhaps in order to see if birds from other species follow similar patterns.

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“Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife”

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Forget the old news, Rwanda of today is one of Africa’s safest, cleanest and most stable countries. Slightly larger than Wales and about the size of the US state of Maryland, this country’s lure is its 703 bird species and three dozen Albertine Rift endemics among them. are covered in the remaining 49 pages.

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