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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. White article on bird feeding stations. A tradition was born.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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