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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. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. There was also a mammal jawbone in the pellet too. He’s one of the managers of the specimen collection and loves a good dead bird mystery. But those feathers didn’t match and the beak looked too small.

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

10,000 Birds

Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Person 3, however, adds a word somewhere in the page and then passes it on to three other people. You will be able to tell who copied from Person 3 because their papers will contain the inserted element.

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