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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

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Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Ringer Suh et al.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10 Questions for Birdchick on 1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know

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and the people who run it are almost like family. My first book was based on what used to be a page of rabbit photos on the Birdchick webpage called Disapproving Rabbits. So far, the rabbit book has proved to be the most financially successful. I do have an outline for a peregrine falcon book…and a birder erotica book.

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