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Birds

Tropicbird-Sunbittern relationship hypothesized in new paper

October 21, 2012 by David 2 Comments

The oldest division in the great avian tree lies between the ratites and tinamous (the paleognaths) and all other living birds (the neognaths). The...

Birds

Ty’s Hawk

October 18, 2012 by Suzie 5 Comments

Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Ideally, we...

Birds

Migration is Dangerous

October 17, 2012 by Corey 5 Comments

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can...

Birds

The Many Faces of the Pine Warbler

October 16, 2012 by Nate 3 Comments

There’s really no more quintessentially southeastern bird than the Pine Warbler. You can argue that large waders of Florida are flashier or that the...

Birds, Conservation

Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

by Greg 6 Comments

A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your...

Birds

The Last Diabolical Wood-Warbler Quiz of 2012

October 15, 2012 by Corey 23 Comments

Catherine Hamilton has been the first to get all three species correct in the last two diabolical wood-warbler quizzes. If she gets three in...

Birds

Fall Wood-Warblers on Migration

by Corey 4 Comments

Every fall and spring for the last several years I have been putting together a collection of wood-warblers spotted on migration. Why stop now?...

Birds

The Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

October 13, 2012 by Corey 2 Comments

Old world warblers are difficult for North American birders. That is obvious. Rather than trying to learn them North American birders are well-advised to...

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