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” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. And, that’s it.
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Nevertheless, five years seems a good time to reflect on the blogging experience. I have also written about things I did not expect, such as whether to rename certain birds , an issue that I was essentially unaware of when I started in 2017. Hopefully, some of these posts provide just a little bit of insight.
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