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

10,000 Birds

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. His seminal article, “Bird-Window Collisions,” based on dissertation research finished in 1979, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal until 1989. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

10,000 Birds

Some researchers did an experiment that among humans is only done rarely and only via mistakes made in maternity hospitals. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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