Tag: Bird evolution

Reviews

The Ascent of Birds by John Reilly

June 8, 2018 by Carrie No Comments

Every once in a while you stumble on a new natural history book that seems destined to be a classic. Is that a bold...

Reviews

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us: A Book Review

February 6, 2018 by Donna No Comments

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin,...

A hatching Mississippi Sandhill Crane egg held by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Employee

Birds

Justified and Ancient

December 2, 2016 by Carrie 2 Comments

They call it a shell pit because of the vast array of fossilized mollusks who once lived and died there, then became a resource...

Birds

On the threshold of flight

January 20, 2015 by Greg 5 Comments

We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. I speak...

Birds

Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

September 11, 2014 by Duncan No Comments

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an...

News

This Week in Bird(ing) News: Science, Citizen Science, and Citizen Savagery

June 23, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

Birding in Israel? Report your sightings to help build an eBird-like database of the country’s avifauna. New studies find that: when birds migrate from...