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Redgannet’s Year List 2014

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Whilst his nomadic lifestyle allows him to bird all around the world, he tends to favour certain spots and sticks to where he knows. Brant [sp] (Branta bernicla) 12/01/2014 San Diego River – Mudflats and Robb Field. Gadwall [sp] (Anas strepera) 12/01/2014 San Diego River – Estuary.

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Flights of Passage: a book review

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There are 59 million mature Blackpolls, which sounds good until the authors note that their population declined by 92 percent between 1970 and 2014: the math alone seems unbelievable. Second (as if the reader needed reminding) is the peril birds are in generally.

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

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2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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The five most unique birds in the world

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2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds. It’s important to understand that the evolutionary distinctiveness ranking proposed by Jetz et al.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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And for many of them, it worked- they rehabilitated themselves, adapted, and gave up some of their grandiose postures and lazy lifestyle as well as their aristocratic black-and-white appearance. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. Many Giant Pandas were sent to the countryside for reeducation.

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