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

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As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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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.” But I may well be wrong.

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On Deep Vegan Outreach and Dr. Ray Greek

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The General Principles of Deep Vegan Outreach, including addressing "Economically-disadvantaged individuals and families, and racially and ethnically diverse populations" and the enormous implications of the increase in animal consumption among developing nations. Of course, the name brings Deep Ecology to mind, which is a plus in my mind.

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!)

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A Question of Migration

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Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Specifically, Itcher Tern.

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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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Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Things get complicated – and then, completely out of hand — when Gabe’s new inamorata is introduced to his family. We were lucky, Alejandra and I,” says Gabe, unironically. “We, What an ugly sentence that is.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

10,000 Birds

There are variations on that theme, of course. In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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