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Conservation

Birds On The Brink

December 17, 2014 by Greg 1 Comment

There’s been some interesting bird research lately, having to do with the origin of birds (new analysis of new and old fossils) and the...

Birds

Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

November 18, 2014 by Greg 8 Comments

Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. We rented...

Birds

How smart are parrots?

October 21, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog “Nebo.” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete...

Conservation

How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

September 16, 2014 by Greg 10 Comments

Nobody knows and I’m not going to pretend to tell you. However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as...

Birds

Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

August 19, 2014 by Greg 6 Comments

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...

Mammals

Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

July 22, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

The ranger stood on the dirt road, facing south, and the rest of us, scattered about the parked safari truck, facing north and paying...

Birds

Three Interesting Things

July 15, 2014 by Greg No Comments

I have a larger post coming out next week as part of a special 10,000 Birds topical extravaganza, so for now just three little...

Birds

Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

June 17, 2014 by Greg No Comments

It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more than once. The original story...

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