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The Bird 10K Project

10,000 Birds

With about 10,500 living species, birds constitute the most speciose class of terrestrial vertebrates and are adapted to and distributed throughout most terrestrial and shallow aquatic biomes on our planet. … …The phylogeny of birds has been one of the most challenging vertebrate groups to decipher. .

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Cory’s Shearwater Uses Mental Map of Pelagic Odor

10,000 Birds

At some point, perhaps in the middle of class, perhaps after class, perhaps in an email I receive later, this question gets asked: “How do migratory birds not get lost when the Earth’s magnetic field reverses?” ” For years, my answer was this: “Well, maybe a lot of them do, nobody said life was fair.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women.

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Vile Practices at Tulare County, CA Animal Shelter

Critter News

ALDF is asking that you send a letter to the USDA asking that Sargeant's Class B license-which allows him to round up dogs and cats from animal shelters, auctions, private individuals and other "random sources," and then sell them for experimentation-be revoked. That's all.

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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo, Part Deux

Animal Person

I touched on all points, focusing on the petting zoo, and will investigate the vendor in case there are any complaints against them. Our clubhouse is a large house, complete with a kitchen made for entertaining and I'm going to survey the neighborhood for interest in a vegan cooking class. Did I accomplish anything? That depends.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

10,000 Birds

Long-tailed Pipit is classed as a Winter Endemic and its story is a fascinating one. It is most reliably found in mid-elevation ranges, especially where Aloes are flowering. Notic the different width of the red chest band, this is the most obvious feature when separating these species.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

If there is diversity in mechanisms (as suggested above) for a single-evolutionary event model, there would certainly be that diversity times ten (or some other number) if migration emerged multiple times.

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