Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species...
I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to...
I write a lot about climate change on my other blog, and so I don’t really feel a strong need to touch on this...
It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we...
Years ago it was pointed out by somebody, probably Tinbergen or Lack or Wynn-Edwards or one of the other great bird-savvy ethologists of the...
In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example...
The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. This has resulted in a reduction of the...
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