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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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Give researchers an expensive toy such as a Scanning Electron Microscope, and they will use it on anything at hand. For example, is there the equivalent of a “mansplaining” drum pattern only used by the males? Can you tell the sex of a Great Spotted Woodpecker by its drumming pattern? One paper says no.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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The Ashy Tailorbird is a good example of the different perspectives of describing a bird – while the English name focuses on the body of the bird, the Latin species name ruficeps refers to the rufous head. The paper cites the example of the Blue-footed Booby: Its foot color becomes duller when the birds are malnourished.