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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

Bumpus’s study was carried out in the vicinity of Providence, Rhode Island (Bumpus was at Brown University). Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

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. Rhode Island. I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D.