Remove Killing Remove Lifestyle Remove Owls Remove Raised
article thumbnail

Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

10,000 Birds

It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade.

Family 279
article thumbnail

Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. I like the title of the paper “Visual fields in the Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax : nocturnality does not result in owl-like features” This presumably means you do not need to look like an owl to be able to see at night.

Birds 197