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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

The volume „Tierrechte – eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung“ (literally „Animal Rights – an interdisciplinary challenge“ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. The results of the lectures are written down in this book. More information on the book can be found here. We really appreciate it!

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. However, they sometimes claim to be the national bird of Germany due to their black-red-yellow color combination – this is not true.

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