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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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In a press statement released by the species, it says “We are proud to raise our own chicks and condemn the practice of some of our relatives to dupe other birds into becoming foster parents” During the lockdown here in my Shanghai apartment complex, the TV advertisements in the elevators were not changed for almost 3 months.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

They represent the best of New Zealand’s birding, the astonishing rarity, the fascinating endemism, and the cheering triumph of conservation. White-tailed Tropicbird by Nathan Swick Renato chose an impressive parrot: Birding is a wonderful experience in itself. That takes some doing, but Charlie was the bird to do it.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Flickker Photos.

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

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It’s not clear: Our tree lends support for either three independent gains of vocal learning or two gains (hummingbirds and the common ancestor of parrots and oscine songbirds) followed by two losses (in New Zealand wrens and suboscines). Jarvis et al.

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Hybrid Teals

10,000 Birds

In my experience, Cinnamon Teal x Common or Green-winged Teal hybrids are the rarest; I have seen pictures of only 2 such birds and a 3rd bird (the one mentioned above) in life. Are you willing to hazard a guess about its lineage? The flanks are partly striped but also finely vermiculated in part.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

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