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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” ” Take that, spoonbill.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Most definitely so.

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

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His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. Now, let me test the armour of “Birds of Cyprus” (BOC) against the mace of the “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG). The Birds of Cyprus definitively. Defined as an art form in which traditional painting techniques (e.g.

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Gaining executive access: what messaging approach wins?

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That’s what we set out to find in our latest research study. In a simulation-based test scenario, the executives were told they were reading an email from an outside vendor sales rep they didn’t know and had never met with before. While no clear winner emerged, there was a definite loser. But does this conventional wisdom?—which

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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

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The photo above is a breeding-plumaged Myrtle Warbler by Kelly Colgan Azar. This does not make them Myrtle Warblers, nor does it make them hybrids (except by a biologically unhelpful, rigidly typological definition). So Toews et al. As for separating Audubon’s and Black-fronted warblers, Toews et al. wing length; Brelsford et al.

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A Question of Migration

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Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Well, no, definitely not. Take homing pigeons.