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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

December 21, 2014 by David 9 Comments
The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came...
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Summer guide to bird taxonomy and systematics news

July 13, 2014 by David 2 Comments
It’s mid-July, which among other things means that those of...
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The five most unique birds in the world

April 20, 2014 by David 10 Comments
What are the world’s most distinctive birds? That question could...
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