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Bird-Eating Fish

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Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird. The range of size of sampled catfish ranges from 0.9

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. My research in the Congo supports this idea. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. Clearly, more research is needed!

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. They are also hunted.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. The latter is the most significant.

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

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But I’ve compiled a sampling of this year’s news and events for your edification. 02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. Birds Bird evolution research'

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). The website then hastens to add that “Unfortunately, there isn’t much scientific research on the poop of the upland buzzard” I bet some ornithology students do not find this particularly unfortunate. Some ornithological research is surprisingly simple.

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