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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

10,000 Birds

Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. Well-marked subspecies groups receive full accounts, and the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped.

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Why Birders Dig Darwin

10,000 Birds

Sometimes we have good days where we discover a long-lost friend or a brand-new one. The biologist David Haig explains, “Speciation comes about when there is recombination and isolation between different groups of genes, so that no longer can genes in one group be recombined with genes in another group.”

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Howell and colleagues propose a standard sequence of species for field guides based on eight groupings–swimming waterbirds that swim, flying waterbirds, walking waterbirds, upland gamebirds, raptors, miscellaneous larger landbirds, aerial landbirds, and songbirds. I love a field guide that makes usability a priority. Species Accounts.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. A recent survey of the birds suggests that the effort has been a success. Birding'

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Fun Time Dog Shop (and giveaway)

4 The Love Of Animals

Fun Time Dog Shop is a brand new online shop for modern pets (and people)! But the truly special part is all profits from the shop are donated to non-profit dog rescue groups! The winner will get their choice of Palm Puppy from the available breeds (you will be sent a list when you are notified of winning).

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

I’d prefer something descriptive like Flamboyant , Orange-throated , or Fire-throated Warbler , but feel free to incorporate other evocative nicknames like fire-brand and torch bird. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

” But the tanager brand is changing. ” Bill shape and systematics For a long time, the colorful, diverse, and species-rich group of primarily New World birds called nine-primaried oscines (about 10 percent of all living bird species) were classified largely by the shapes and sizes of their bills.

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