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Talking Starlings

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A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The woman in the video found it as a chick at a few days old and hand reared it. This is not the first talking European Starling on YouTube.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. It’s not clear: Our tree lends support for either three independent gains of vocal learning or two gains (hummingbirds and the common ancestor of parrots and oscine songbirds) followed by two losses (in New Zealand wrens and suboscines).

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) to have and raise children. small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family).

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Of course, it is quite common for human parents to set fire to their family homes in order to keep the adult children from moving back home, but this is not an issue for drongos. In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species.

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Saving a New Zealand Icon

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And on this visit, we were there in time to see feeding for the kiwi chicks the centre was raising. Kiwi, New Zealand icons par excellence , are rather endangered. The suite of predators introduced to New Zealand, on the whole, can’t do to much damage to adult kiwi. So what was going on? It goes like this.

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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We’ve only recently begun to completely piece it together, using fossils and scientific analysis, but what is shows is that, once upon a time, the rail family was one of the most, if not the most, species rich family of birds in the world. But they are, as a family, prone to remarkable wandering.

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Fabulous Fairy-wrens

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There are antwrens of South America, wren-babblers of South East Asia, the New Zealand wrens and the multitude of scrubwrens, heathwrens and fernwrens of Australia. They are also highly social, living as pairs with a number of helpers that aid in raising the chicks.

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