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Birding Morelia

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If you are like me, you can get a fair amount of birding done while traveling with your non-birder spouse… as long as you make sure you visit places with lots of other interesting activities, to keep that spouse happy. But I really want you to come bird Morelia. This is not the best birding decision. to be exact).

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. A bird song is a communication having to do with sexual selection. Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. His life brought him into close proximity with birds, observing them and practicing taxidermy to learn even more.

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From Today's New York Times

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Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.