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SeaWorld Orlando’s Antarctica Welcomes First Penguin Chick

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On November 30, SeaWorld Orlando welcomed the first chick to hatch at Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, the all-new attraction featuring a colony of more than 250 penguins from four species – king, Adelie, gentoo and rockhopper. Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin transports guests into the icy world of the penguin like never before.

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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. This major radiation of water-adapted birds includes loons, penguins, and the remarkable tubenoses along with a variety of totipalmate and wading birds. ’s placement of foot-propelled loons as basal to the whole group and penguins and tubenoses as sister taxa.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. When was the last time you chose a book by its covers?

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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

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Groups them by family too and by their shape” His extra long arm extended and passed me that precious book. Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. “Check it out!” Fred talked to us now and then about the wild and wooded state.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. British edition: Viking Press (Penguin), March 2022, ISBN: 9780241460498, £13.00. Princeton Univ. Press, August 2022, 496pp., Hardcover: ISBN: 9780691239927.

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Untamed Americas

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Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Witness male gentoo penguins perform mating jigs to attract females. Race along with mustangs in the Great Basin desert as one outcast male fights toregain his place in the herd. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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