Tag: flight - 10,000 Birds

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Budgerigars Reveal the Rules of the Road

October 5, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

Or is that the rules of the air? (As demonstrated by the flock of Budgerigars, above and below, photographed earlier this year by Clare) While...

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You Think You Know Hummingbirds, But You Have No Idea

July 20, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

It’s coming right for us! Ruby-throated Hummingbird photographed by Corey If you’ve ever watched hummingbirds zip through a garden or tropical forest, you know...

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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...

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A Great Big Messy Pile of Bird … News

November 8, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

Hello folks, and happy weekend! After weeks lost to work, stressing about work, stressing about not having work, and working on trying to get...

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New Research Examines How, and Where, Birds Fly

September 18, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

“I want you / to show me the way,” Peter Frampton sings. Pop music is all well and good for people, but how do...

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Four wings good two wings better?

October 15, 2013 by Greg 3 Comments

Birds may have evolved from an ancestor with four wings. This is an idea that has been around for more than a century, to...

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Willets in Flight

June 11, 2012 by Corey 6 Comments

What is there to say about a post that is essentially a gallery of Willets in flight? On the ground Willets are a bland...

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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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Kai Pflug (weekly)
Birding Lodges of the World
Tuesday
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