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What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest: A KidLit Bird Book Review

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is like this: meticulously researched, densely illustrated, and designed for non-linear reading. That initial simplicity transitions to detailed spreads where Ignotofsky manages to weave in definitions of bird terms like “altricial” and “rachis” and “chalaza.” And What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest? What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest?

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Birding Yibin, Sichuan

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The eBird cartoonists call the Spot-breasted Parrotbill a “bulbous-headed brown bird with a comically large bill” As a foreigner living in China and thus used to having my nose size ridiculed, I definitely feel with the parrotbills. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. What a pity.)

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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Seabirds at Bass Rock

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The island is teeming with so many birds that their eggs and young chicks were once harvested for food. Northern Gannets on cliffs Dense Northern Gannet colony While researching this trip, there was a common theme in the articles relating to the gannets: Avian Flu hit this colony hard in 2022.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. McWilliam realizes he’s dealing someone special, a career falcon egg-thief.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Whittaker’s adventures in olfactory research take unexpected turns into genetics, chemistry, and the halls of academia. One of Whittaker’s first experiments was to place other birds’ preen oil on the nests and eggs of Dark-eyed Juncos. Whittaker’s research road is more serpentine than most academics.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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