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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. One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets. ” Crows are smart.

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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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David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Cocker focuses on the love-hate relationship we have with raptors.

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