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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? But Danielle Whittaker has.

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Beak Deformities

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The Alaska Science Center has been working with chickadees for many years, attempting to solve the problem. So far, they have discovered 2000+ cases of chickadees as well as other birds that have a beak deformity. Chickadees have been the main focus for finding out how the deformities happen. It helps prevent beak deformities in birds!

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Some predicted that at that rate the wood stork would become extinct by the year 2000. The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. However, birds in the U.S.

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Birds On The Brink

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For the threatened birds, there are maps that show change over time (2000 to 2080) in viable ranges. The report itself is a few dozen pages long, and describes how “North America’s birds may respond to future climate change” using citizen science data. Each offers a distinct way to engage with the science.

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Borderline of Countable

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As snow was getting thicker, we found ourselves in front of one of the most impressive sights on the entire length of the river – after being 2000 metres / 6500 feet wide only a few kilometres before, the Danube gets squeezed into less than 200 m / 650 ft in the Iron Gates, among cliffs rising up to 600 m / 2000 ft above the waters.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

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We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird.

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Use it or lose it?

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I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Loggers might get, let’s say, $400 dollars for stripping out a forest, where a community might make the equivalent of $2000 dollars a year through foraging, gathering and hunting (the particulars vary).

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