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

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Many people who have bird feeders now use patterns or screens or paint to keep their windows from looking like the entryway to greenery, some even install bird-friendly glass, chosen from a list of products evaluated by the American Bird Conservancy. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. It is one of the largest flying birds in the world and seems to be capable of social learning ( source ).

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Dog-Owner Conversations May Be Possible in Near Future

4 The Love Of Animals

Although your first thought may be that reading the mind of your pooch is something that only exists within the confines of a science fiction movie, this may not necessarily be true. At first appearance, No More Woof resembles a standard headset that one would see in an accessory pack for various electronic products.

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Climate Change and Birds

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But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Well, imagine raising the sea level 20 meters (and yes, that is more than a little bit possible).

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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Even the lyrics of the song echo the art and science of hawk watching, “Link by link, making the connections…”) Chapters are strategically illustrated with David Sibley’s drawings. There is also poetic feel to parts of the book, echoing the passion hawk watchers bring to the science. These are not just drawings of hawks per se.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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The three co-authors of Life Along the Delaware Bay are scientists who know how to write about science without jargon or pretense. Dawson, is also notable, as are the book’s production values. Even if you know all there is to know about the Delaware Bay, if you love shorebirds you will want to have this book.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. 2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Need we feel guilty about being carnivorous? The best advice Ms. Toney Union, N.J., Contrary to Ms.