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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields

May 20, 2014 by Greg No Comments

Bird Navigation is an amazing, mysterious thing. For years, birds have outsmarted scientists over this issue, mainly I think because people looking into navigation...

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

December 17, 2013 by Greg 1 Comment

Many, many things happened in the area of bird science this year, so this review can not be comprehensive. But I’ve compiled a sampling...

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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science

September 23, 2013 by Meredith Mann No Comments

If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. You can use garden-variety...

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Cory’s Shearwater Uses Mental Map of Pelagic Odor

July 16, 2013 by Greg 3 Comments

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to...

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Birds: The Downside

May 21, 2013 by Greg 5 Comments

It is hard to think of too many downsides to birds, but there are some and here I’d like to mention one that we...

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

December 18, 2012 by Greg 2 Comments

Back in the 1980s, it became popular for biologists to consider plant secondary compounds in understanding inter-species relationships and other ecological matters. I was...

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