10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. Hauber is really good at presenting scientific findings so they don’t seem scientific at all, simply reasonable answers to our questions. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 193

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. And the term is ‘non-reversed size dimorphism.’).

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 233

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too. In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. A pair of Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) painted by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.

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2017 Owls Game California 141

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Erich Jarvis discuss key findings. ). Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Severe weather can stress birds and even influence the coloration of their feathers , new research finds. Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Researchers have figured out where the thought-to-be-extinct Bryan’s Shearwater is roosting. No, you didn’t.

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 189