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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. He’s one of the managers of the specimen collection and loves a good dead bird mystery. They’ve got it coming and going!

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. 61: dissection showing upper mandible, lower mandible, and tongue, photo by Tim Birkhead, © Tim Birkhead; text © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Intervention: Stringer Edition

10,000 Birds

After you have collected their mistakes, dissect them. After the dissection is complete, you then unleash a tidal wave of evidence that proves their strung rarity has been misidentified. Talk about field marks, previous records, status and distribution.

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What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

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In this information age, making sense of all the data we're collecting is the biggest challenge we face, and simultaneously, our biggest opportunity. Here’s how it works: Data Collection : OSINT practitioners gather data from multiple sources, such as social media, government records, academic databases, and news outlets.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law.