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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

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Here are the most popular videos on The W. The videos with the most views in the last year: W. The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300).

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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Here’s a video. In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Also as video. Also available as incompetently taken video 1 and video 2.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). This way, you can easily look up images and videos of the many fantastic birds described. Many popular science books have neither.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Homework assignment: Is the bird in this video a male or a female? And there is a video here. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos. Also available as a video and another video. If you like cute birds, you will probably like the Black-and-yellow Broadbill. My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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Just like in people, yawning is contagious in birds

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Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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Pelican Release with International Bird Rescue

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If you spot one of these blue banded birds, you can help by reporting it and contribute to this important citizen science project helping the conservation of this amazing species. Even more importantly, right now you can become a member of International Bird Rescue and double any donation you make! So as Arnold would say, “Do it!