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

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And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr., And I don’t think that will be many people.

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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

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In the meantime, research into ways to make buildings safer for birds is ongoing. The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. Building-stunned bird: Nashville Warbler above by Stephanie Beard, Project BirdSafe, Audubon Minnesota. News bird collisions glass skyscraper'

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DeMuth Agrees to Plea Bargain

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From the Science Insider. Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota charged last year with felony conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act agreed yesterday to a plea bargain. Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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A Question of Migration

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To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly. 2 PIERSMA, T., MOURITSEN, H.,

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. Interestingly, in her work, the researcher found that the birds live in small groups dominated by a single male. A bit surprisingly (at least to me), the Kalij Pheasant has been introduced and established as a gamebird in Hawaii.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. in ecology from the University of Minnesota and has lived in Monteverde, Costa Rica since 1972. Damselflies first, then dragonflies. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D.