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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields

May 20, 2014 by Greg No Comments

Bird Navigation is an amazing, mysterious thing. For years, birds have outsmarted scientists over this issue, mainly I think because people looking into navigation...

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

April 15, 2014 by Greg 1 Comment

I’ve been down with an odd illness for a few weeks, and then I flew to Mexico and back (boy, are my arms tired!)...

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

February 18, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding:...

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Swallows. Swallowed

January 21, 2014 by Greg No Comments

I’ve only seen Tigerfish (Alestidae, genus Hydrocynus, usually Hydrocynus goliath) in two contexts, but I’ve seen a lot of them. One is on the...

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

December 17, 2013 by Greg 1 Comment

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. But I’ve compiled a sampling...

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Three Amazing Things

November 19, 2013 by Greg 3 Comments

Migration Shift Cause Better Understood Birds have been migrating earlier. The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds...