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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

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The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Persons 1 and 2 copy the page exactly and each give it to three other people. Ringer Suh et al.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. In the back of the book, we find a lengthy section on “Bird Families,” a glossary, an index.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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For example, Red-bellied Woodpeckers began their colonization “without warning” on western Long Island in mid-May 1961, expanded “the invasion” in spring 1962, and then incurred a “second invasion” in spring 1969 (p. An identification guide for an overlooked bird family? And for good reason.

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Latest high-level bird taxonomy summarized in recent paper

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The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. Through the course of the paper, Mayr puts a slew of recent studies (including Hackett et al.’s

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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