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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

September 8, 2014 by Corey No Comments

Midafternoon on 9 August 1825, Andrew Bloxam, the naturalist on the HMS Blonde, shot a starling on Mauke, an island in the Cook Islands....

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

September 7, 2014 by David 2 Comments

The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon. Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even,...

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

by Clare M No Comments

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. There are only approximately...

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Bokmakierie

August 30, 2014 by Redgannet 1 Comment

I have never quite made up my mind how this beautiful bush-shrike’s name should be pronounced. I favour stressing the penultimate syllable with a...

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Wildlife Rehabilitator Slang

August 29, 2014 by Suzie 4 Comments

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. To civilians who may have...

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

August 28, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 2 Comments

The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow...

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Mountain Chickadees at Lassen Volcanic National Park

August 27, 2014 by Larry 1 Comment

Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli) are a conspicuous cavity nester and one of the 96 species of birds that nest in Lassen Volcanic National Park....