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Yellowhammer Dialect Project

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Since this research has a strong citizen science component, we want to help Pavel spread the word: What happens with birdsong during invasion of a new territory? Its simple songs can be assigned to several dialects, broadly distributed in Europe but overlapping in a mosaic fashion. Why Great Britain and New Zealand?

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. The bacteria that laid me low earlier this year is a zoonosis, causing problems for New Zealand’s endemic seals as well as visitors to Borneo.

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The Atlas of Birds: Diversity, Behavior, and Conservation – A Book Review

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In later chapters, the maps illustrate global aspects of the dangers posed to birds (coal mining in Appalachia threatens the Cerulean Warbler while lead ingested from ammunition threatens the Spanish Imperial Eagle in Europe). Here is a sample of a chapter, “Ratites & Tinamous”, from the Birds in Order section.

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