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

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Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma is a synthesis of theory and research about evolution and birds. I needed to read some sections more than once to get the gist.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

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The White-naped Xenopsaris is a member of the Tityra family (Tityridae), a newish family of mostly South American birds carved from various oddball birds formerly lumped with the manakins, the tyrant-flycatchers and the cotingas. eBird has a range of data exploration tools that, to my mind, exist help birders bird.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. First page (p. 131) and last page (p. 141) of the Firetails section. © 2021 by Dennis R. .”

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Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide

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Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton).

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M.,

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information. Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds is a book about seabird research by a passionate seabird researcher.

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