10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

This traditional lifestyle fits well with its unexciting species name of propinqua , meaning something like “related, similar, neighboring” – the kind of name unimaginative scientists give to a new species that looks too boring to merit naming it after some famous ornithologist or rich sponsor.

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 191

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today.

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Family Parrots 2014 Birds 279

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. I take umbrage at the omnivores who buy grass-fed beef and call me a barbaric savage for harvesting Maine’s overpopulated deer, moose, rabbit and fowl. Toney Union, N.J., Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J.,

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New York Times New York San Antonio Meat 40