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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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so I’m a bit behind in my intense pursuit of scientific findings related to birds. First, the bird butts. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of birds flying by out there are going the other way. The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. There is a bit of science news.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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Being sacred may not have been that great for the Ibis in Egypt though – apparently, mummies of the Ibis are by far the most common bird mummies found there. And it seems that most of these mummified birds came from the wild rather than being specifically domesticated, according to DNA studies. Possibly also for doing the dishes.

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Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Would you support research on birds with just a click on Facebook? To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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Why do birds living near Chernobyl have smaller brains?

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Acrocephalus palustris is the old world Marsh Warbler, and is one of the birds in the Chernobyl area. Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. A recent study, Chernobyl Birds Have Smaller Brains , looks at this in birds at Chernobyl.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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Starlings and Eagles

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If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. It was the only bird I could see through the narrow slit in the blind, and so, as a bird-watcher, I watched it. Birds banding Golden Eagle starlings'

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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Gaines, notwithstanding that the story (1) takes place in the Uruguay of 1999, with plenty of commentary on the Uruguayan political scene of that time, (2) is narrated by a bird illustrator who identifies the birds he sees only by their common Spanish names, and (3) flashes back to the use of torture by South American juntas in the 1970’s.

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