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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Baihualing – The Sequel

10,000 Birds

Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. But that is science in hierarchical institutions). They are typically long-tailed, dark brown above, white or orange-brown below, and many have characteristic head patterns.

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