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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. It’s fascinating stuff.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Until turkey size or so. Whales are cows.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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The feature distinguishes birds from other species; All birds have them, no other species do. Beaks vary across different kinds of birds, and this great diversity in beaks is part of the great diversity of the 10,000+ species of birds that exist today; Beaks thus facilitated the diversification of birds. So how did beaks evolve?

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan

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And, he places current research within a framework of paleontological history of intrigue, backstabbing, and name-calling feuds. (No, Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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They found 673 species and advanced the yearly total to 1019. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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They submitted 144 checklists, noting 628 species adding 72 to the year’s running total bringing it to 1890. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Ocellated Turkey – Meleagris ocellata. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 18 Aug 2017.

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