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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. Another member of the magpie family, the White-winged Magpie , makes do with far fewer colors. Apparently, if exposed to sunlight, the green of the magpie plumage may turn blue.

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“Birds & Flowers”: a book review

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Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship is to highlight other bird families that pollinate. This is not, it should be noted, the sort of book in which a journeyman nature writer distills the ins and outs of some discrete marvel of natural or physical science to a lay readership.

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