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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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One of the defining characteristics of birds, besides the obvious features of wings and feathers, is their bills. From toucans to curlews and from hummingbirds to flamingos, birds display an almost otherworldly diversity in these body-parts. Bills are instrumental in defining three of the senses in birds – taste, touch and smell.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve.

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The Ruddy Shelduck Twitch

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I already have a history of searches for this species. Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard , was a Ruddy Shelduck! They do mention the “utva zlatokrila” (golden-winged duck), but do we know which species did they meant? Birds ducks Europe Serbia' Well, too odd to be countable.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. This makes perfect sense.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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9 beats, birded 9 countries this month; Belize , Guatamala , Costa Rica, UK, Iran, USA, Greece, Australia and Mexico. They submitted 144 checklists, noting 628 species adding 72 to the year’s running total bringing it to 1890. Those are the numbers, here come the birds; Alphabetic Taxonomic. 18 Aug 2017. 18 Feb 2017.

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Collaborative List – January 2019

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The engaged and generous beats ( 10 of them) have shared 188 checklists during January and have accounted for 859 species from 8 countries (USA, Australia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, UK, New Zealand and Serbia. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. old angel factory area.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists. We can use the figures above to compare the birds that cross between the hemispheres. Only 123 species appear on both sides of the life list. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. old angel factory area.

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