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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2013)

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This, the weekend of the Great Backyard Bird Count , is one of those times: tell us how you contributed to citizen science. But, every so often, the call is sounded, and the sharpest eyes and ears on the planet are pressed into service.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of December 2013)

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To all you hardy naturalists who have already logged Christmas Bird Count hours in service to citizen science, I salute you! Winter has come early and often to Western NY. In the face of endless snow, all I want to do is seek shelter, warmth, and booze.

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Are You Doing The Great Backyard Bird Count This Weekend?

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You really should participate in The Great Backyard Bird Count this coming weekend, 15-18 February 2013. What better way to enjoy birds than to do it while participating in a worldwide citizen science event? What are you waiting for? Head over to The Great Backyard Bird Count site to get started!

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Astonishing Move By UK Government to Control Buzzards

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You could raise both, given that there are 40 million Pheasants released in the UK each year and previous research by the industry’s own science lobby (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust) had found little evidence of raptor take (0.6% of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases). In the 21st century this is truly outrageous. … a.

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

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I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. Take, for example, the group of the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae – the nightjars, and nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills, and widow-chuckers.

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Florida’s Top Annual Pelagic Trips

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The Friends of the Marine Science Center sponsor several pelagic trips every year out of Ponce de Leon Inlet to explore the deep ocean waters around the Gulfstream in search of many of these pelagic species. The next pelagic trip of 2013 will be on Sunday, July 21st. Birding Florida pelagic petrel tropicbird'