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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths gives us another opportunity to get to know Cochran, and Heisman’s visit to his Illinois house in 2021 (during the Pandemic, so everyone was masked) gives us a final, cheery portrait of a man who embraced birds and adventure. He died August 2022 , and the book is dedicated to him.

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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

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The rails did indeed come to investigate but came up empty-beaked. Giving in to his innate desire to investigate natural happenings, Cope went to the other side of the feature to shed some light on the situation. Had birders and hikers heard its ethereal song in deciduous forests of southern Illinois?

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

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.

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Vote Now for Awesome Ornithology Projects!

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Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. My research proposal “ Towards a mechanistic understanding of feather colors ”, investigates the genetic basis for color patterns in birds. To win, we need your votes! What are the mechanisms by which this occurs? My Project.

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Where Are All the Cats?

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Last summer, Alley Cat Allies conducted an analysis of Illinois Department of Agriculture reports collected from the 247 animal pounds and shelters licensed by the state that handled cats in 2006. More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. Things don't look too good.

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