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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

10,000 Birds

Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with years of research under his belt, doesn’t quite achieve perfection with this book on the totality of that strange entity, the bird’s egg, but he makes a valiant effort of it and comes away with a very interesting book indeed.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. Hauber is really good at presenting scientific findings so they don’t seem scientific at all, simply reasonable answers to our questions. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It is pointedly not an identification guide, though there is a lot of identification information in it, and it is not a coffee table book, though every page is illustrated. I did a little research and found plovers and snipe o n menus and in cookbooks of the time, though I still haven’t found recipes for Dunlin or Dowitchers.

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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” ” ( source ). ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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AdMall’s Event Report Helps Close $250,000 Annual Ad Campaign

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I used AudienceSCAN, [more] specifically the national advertising response in the past 12 months, to create an additional local contest to win a Big Green Egg grill for National Grilling Month. We also had many entries for the ‘Big Green Egg Contest.’ [The The owner] is very pleased with his results.”