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Just call him Dr. Dolittle

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If you’ve ever wanted to understand why warning calls by one bird species seem to spread rapidly, like an avian version of the Wave , to birds of other species, Professor Erick Greene from the University of Montana is your man. To paraphrase a very cool Facebook page, I @#$*-ing love science.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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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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Chickadee Symphony

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The University of Montana Symphonic Wind Ensemble, to be precise. Naylor introduced this, the first public performance of the piece, together with UM professor and bioacoustics researcher Erick Greene. October 13 found me doing something very unusual, even for me: learning about birds while watching an orchestra. And the music itself?

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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans

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The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. ” or “What about…?” Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS.

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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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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 07 Jan 2018. 06 Jan 2018.

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