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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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There is also a 16-page insert of 51 images and photographs, illustrating technology (bird bands, a spectrogram of a nocturnal flight call), people, and birds (a clearly outraged Magellanaic penguin wearing an early geolocation device, a Swainson’s Thrush being fitted with a Motus transmitter).

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. I also find this model compelling.

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A Question of Migration

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A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Another question has to do with the nature of flight in relation to migration. Lots of birds do not fly at all, or don’t fly very much. Most of them don’t migrate. They don’t fly, but they migrate. But generally, flightless birds don’t migrate.

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Draai Laag Brewing Company: Haviken

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Without a doubt, Haviken’s assertive and somewhat unfamiliar flavors amount to a demanding but very rewarding beer that’s worth investigating if you come across it. For the sixth straight year , Revolution Brewing of Chicago released its Penguin Hops beer in collaboration with that city’s Shedd Aquarium.

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