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Why do birds living near Chernobyl have smaller brains?

November 17, 2011 by Greg 2 Comments

Radiation is funny. Not funny ha ha, but rather, funny strange. The health effects of radiation are not at all simple, and in fact,...

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Grey-backed Terns

November 16, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

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Greater Scaup in Flight

November 15, 2011 by Corey 8 Comments

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...

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Pied-billed Grebe From Every Angle

November 14, 2011 by Mike 1 Comment

The Pied-billed Grebe, a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience,...

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Ducks in Autumn

November 13, 2011 by Corey 6 Comments

Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery and rainy, sometimes warm and...

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Tubenose Taxonomy 101

November 10, 2011 by David 9 Comments

Tubenose. No, it’s not part of a Shakespearean insult. Tubenoses are seabirds that belong to an order called Procellariiformes (from a Latin word for...

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Snowy Egret Fishing at Arcata Marsh

November 9, 2011 by Larry 4 Comments

Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) photos by Larry Jordan (click for full sized images) While visiting Arcata Marsh a couple of weeks ago, I had...

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Finding a place for the Piopio

by Duncan 1 Comment

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to name birds after familiar...

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