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Backyard Birdfeeder Bragging Rights, a Great Adventure for a Great Twitch, and More: This Week in Birding News

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Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. contemplating the pretty blue eggs are American Robins are soon to lay is a good coping strategy.). Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey.

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Baby Boom … in Great Britain?

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The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. Two different females among the captive group have laid eggs , and scientists are keeping a watchful eye on a few others. Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” ” (Tim Low, “Where Song Began”). While this may sound attractive at first, it also covers highly immoral behavior.

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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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The obvious choice was the Mallard , that plucky familiar northern hemisphere species that is the father of the even more familiar domesticated duck. In fact, as the species was quickly identified as as creating hybrids with Grey Ducks, the opinion was by the 1920s that the species shouldn’t be released further.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. For them, God probably was the one instructing the drongos to mob one species but not the other. Why show photos of species as boring as this Ashy-throated Warbler

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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I’ve been fortunate to see two Penguin species in the wild (African and Galapagos) and have dreamed of seeing more–maybe even all!–especially The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.”

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

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But I’ve compiled a sampling of this year’s news and events for your edification. 03–19 Interesting research on microevolution in swallows was reported , suggesting that swallows in one area may be adapting to problems unique to living near, and hanging out on the surface of, a highway. Birds Bird evolution research'

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