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The Cry of the Curlew

10,000 Birds

Her long beak indicates that she is a female An email to Tony Cross of the Mid Wales Ringing Group brought a speedy reply. A quick check on the internet revealed that there was an on-going colour ringing project taking place in Wales, and it seemed most likely that this was where my bird had been ringed.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

10,000 Birds

This is followed by a very quick condensation of the work of British ornithologist David Lack on natural selection and clutch size, then by a summary of experiments, including one on Collared Flycatchers in Sweden. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size. (If 70) is adorable as well as educational.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

10,000 Birds

Pasquier cites study after study, often jumping from one continent to another, from one bird family to a totally different group, relying on a bibliography of over 660 studies to lay out the variable, diverse behaviors birds employ.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. If migration evolved many times in birds, then it would be worth asking if it evolved in birds more often than in other groups of vertebrates. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Specifically, Itcher Tern.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

It covers 434 species across 9 orders and 18 families of birds. All species in every one of these groups is described even if not every single species lives on the ocean, a guideline continued from the earlier volume. SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION. There is one exception–ducks.

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