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Who’s watching whom?

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May 29th was my 63rd birthday, and I got the best birthday present possible. In this case, the bird that came to investigate was a lovely male Berylline Hummingbird. And it wasn’t a passing shower; no, it was the kind of rain that suggested that our summer monsoon season might be starting. So that would be a yes!

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

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Am I over-confident in my thinking that we were so interesting that they were investigating us for a good half an hour, until we moved further upriver? Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Adult males reach an average length of 2.32 metres (7.6

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Apostlebirds

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They are inquisitive birds that will take an interest in human activity and seem to have no concerns. Apostlebird investigating field-guide. We slowed right down as we knew there would be several of the birds present and being the fearless birds they are we didn’t want to collect them on the front of our car.

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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

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It comprised eight short talks on subjects ranging from investigations into the genetics of magnetic receptors for navigation, to the use of eBird and other “citizen science” crowdsourcing efforts in studying migrant phenology. According to the program guide, nearly half of the presenters were students.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Solid Air is divided into 12 chapters, presented as if Klem was on an auditorium podium giving a logical argument on why people need to take window strikes seriously. Did the model work? 119), it’s clear from his comments that the scientific community still tends to put bird collisions on the sidelines.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. Presumably, this also leads to income inequality, if parallels to humans are any guidance. Some delegates.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

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