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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Global Big Day in Costa Rica

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The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Different promotions and activities are carried out to boost the use of eBird including Global Big Day, a worldwide event that happened on May 5th. This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. Others : There are many birding festivals , including several large and well-attended ones, but attendance numbers for any individual event do not provide much information about the overall number of birders.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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Support Project SNOWstorm!

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Do it for science! To that end they are attaching lightweight tracking devices to Snowy Owls so we can learn what individual owls are doing. Will you put up $20 to make this irruption meaningful in a scientific sense? If 150 of you do that it would already be enough for a transmitter! Donate now to Project SNOWstorm ! Do it for Bill!

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Week 26: San juan Islands

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Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. And here is a small group the broke away and swam out to deeper water. Here is a small group shot of those Purple Martins.

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