10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2014

Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked! This was on Gondwana.

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Madagascar Ostriches Elephants New Zealand 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet Macaws.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279