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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

March 1, 2017 by Meredith Mann No Comments

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains...

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Lovebirds, Boo-birds, and a Young Birder Who Needs Our Support: This Week in Bird News

February 15, 2017 by Meredith Mann 1 Comment

There’s lots of disheartening stuff going on in the bird world this week, so let’s start with some love in the air, in honor...

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The Bird With Four Sexes

December 20, 2016 by Greg 4 Comments

What is sex? This is a simple question with a complicated answer. Part of the answer is this: The biological identity of an individual...

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It Takes a Genetic Village: Saving the Florida Scrub-Jay

October 19, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

“Everything counts in large amounts …” That lyric may be all well and good for Depeche Mode (make that, Rock and Roll Hall of...

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

May 19, 2015 by Greg 1 Comment

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...

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The origins of tanagers, warblers, and sparrows are coming into focus

January 25, 2015 by David 6 Comments

A new paper out this month attempts to paint the most comprehensive picture yet of the origins and diversification of the American sparrows, wood-warblers,...

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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

December 28, 2014 by David 5 Comments

The colorful Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) lives in wetlands from Portugal and Senegal all the way east to New Zealand and the Samoan Islands,...