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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. No doubt, the Lesser NLT will be relieved not to be bossed around by its erstwhile bigger family member anymore. ” ( source ).

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

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Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. But special.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservationā€“A Book Review

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Urban Renewal: Is It Safer for Songbirds in the City?

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Thatā€™s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Birds like cuckoos, who lay their eggs in songbirdsā€™ nests, and whose young then off the hostsā€™ own chicks, tend to avoid cities. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communicationā€“A Book Review

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Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. Ā© 2021 Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman & Quarto Publishing. There is so much here! And, that’s it.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. They were simply sent to Family Court. Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses. At the time, Justice and Mesker were 17 years old. Gutierrez was 18.

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