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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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New World Vultures are their own family, Cathartidae, that has moved around a bit with the proliferation of genetic testing such that for a while they were thought to be allied with storks, but is now pretty well within, but not too within, the other diurnal raptors. Turkey Vulture Wing Tagging – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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These sorts of tests have been done in many species and it has always been assumed (hoped), that what they found in the little white cages at the back of the zoology department had some wonderful relevance to what happened in the real world. Item B is a plastic red frog. I think item A is the top of a purple Klingon’s head.

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