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

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Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

10,000 Birds

These bird songs have two aspects, and I oversimplify but not excessively so: A genetically inherited template, usually specific to the song-producing sex, and a learned song that consists of the template shaped by experience as a developing bird hears the adult version of its own song. The top two are individuals with normal song.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model.

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