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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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I was going to have something for you this month about the dinosaur-bird thing, but I never got to it. The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

CR being the highest category in the Red List , if I want to see some of those birds, I better hurry! Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds? Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. At first, we observe from afar.

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