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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. ” Crows are smart. This is not something I needed to tell you but there is some new research.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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Use it or lose it?

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During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' Schools, libraries, roads, hospitals, and the like.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Perhaps it’s because the topic is so huge, it’s difficult to comprehend in a systematic way. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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