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Food, Reviews

“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

August 31, 2018 by Tristan Lowery No Comments

After beginning the month with two sour beer reviews, I’ve decided to keep the streak going to close out August with a third. While...

News

The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

April 25, 2015 by Meredith Mann No Comments

After a long hiatus that included a new cat, a new apartment, and enough time with the in-laws to last me quite awhile, here’s...

News

Attack of the Drones

February 8, 2015 by Meredith Mann 3 Comments

So you’re a bird just minding your own business—feeding, nest-building, mating, that kind of thing. You’ve adapted fairly well to the presence of the...

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...

Birds

The Bill of the Flamingo

May 12, 2013 by Jochen 1 Comment

The bill of the Greater Flamingo is a marvel of nature that would make any baleen whale turn pale with envy. Indeed, they are...

Birds

The Thin Black Line

May 11, 2013 by Jochen 1 Comment

If you are a birder reading this, you will probably like flamingos because they are pink. If you are a flamingo reading this, you...

Birds

The Flight of the Burning Pencils

May 10, 2013 by Jochen 3 Comments

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Germany was not a birding nation, at least not by international standards. In the good old...

Birds

But What Do Flamingos Mean?

November 9, 2012 by Carrie 6 Comments

Why can’t I shut up about this? In 1999, a woman named Jennifer Price published a fascinating — if since largely forgotten — book...

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