10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

I also want people to know that our understanding of birds’ mating habits are constantly changing and evolving…there is still a lot of research to be done here, and we will be learning a lot more in the years to come. Aside from geese, various albatross, alcids, eagles, owls, cranes, swans and condors have life partners as well.

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Albatross Lifestyle Birds Raised 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

This traditional lifestyle fits well with its unexciting species name of propinqua , meaning something like “related, similar, neighboring” – the kind of name unimaginative scientists give to a new species that looks too boring to merit naming it after some famous ornithologist or rich sponsor. photos per 100 trap nights.

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests.

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Cats Costa Rica 2011 Deer 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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Birds Sparrows Mountain Goats Protection 243