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I and the Bird

I and the Bird: What is a Grebe?

August 22, 2013 by Nate 5 Comments

And now we enter into a family of birds more or less unknown to non-birders. Destined to be forever written off as ducks which...

Trips

Rock Partridges and Hollywood mandolins

by Dragan 4 Comments

I don’t like to wake up if it’s still dark outside – I hate it! And here I am on vacation in Greece, turning...

Birding

Goldfinches Coming, Orioles Leaving

August 21, 2013 by Birdchick No Comments

This is such a weird time of year at bird feeders. Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the...

Inspiration

Violent Earth

by Duncan 4 Comments

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct...

Reviews

Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

August 20, 2013 by Meredith Mann 4 Comments

I’m not an ornithologist. I don’t even play one on TV. Nevertheless, I was pleased to find myself at ornithological ground zero this past week,...

Conservation

Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

by Greg 4 Comments

Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of August 2013)

August 19, 2013 by Mike 11 Comments

I’m wondering if Best Bird of the Weekend is too restrictive a way to consider the avians we encounter from Friday to Sunday. Of...

James's Flamingos (by Pedro Szekely) and Horned Grebe (by winnu).

Birds

Exploring the relationship between flamingos and grebes: The wonderful birds

August 18, 2013 by David 3 Comments

That flamingos (Phoenicopteridae) and grebes (Podicipedidae) are probably each others’ closest living relatives is one of the most surprising discoveries in higher-level avian systematics...

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