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Flock to Marion

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South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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Who can resist penguins and whales? The book notes that most of South Georgia’s birds are either Penguins, Sphenisciformes, or Tubenoses, Procellariiformes. And, much as I love Albatrosses and am curious about Prions, it is the pages on Penguins that I keep turning to. I know, I say this with every review.

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Why You Should See The Big Year When It Opens

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Winged Migration , March of the Penguins , and Pale Male each made money for the producers. Money will spill over to sponsor research projects, money to support nature centers, money to fund education. Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. ” Simple business.

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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Jean Loscalzo is a penguin buff (Can you blame her?) and would love to watch Rockhopper Penguins. My Brazilian wish bird would be Rockhopper Penguin: raucous, feisty birds with really cool haircuts, a sort of disheveled yellow-black shaggy look that they wear well.

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A Question of Migration

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Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins.

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A Great Big Messy Pile of Bird … News

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Australian researchers think studying birds may provide the key to helping airplanes avoid turbulence. Not cool, British raptor hunters. Submitted for your adoring: Happy Wheels, also known as Roll of the Penguins. Stressed young Zebra Finches seem to be less picky about the company they keep. Look to flightless birds.

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It’s the Holiday Season — Give Birding Books!

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Mack tells the story of how he set up a research station, and a life, in Papua New Guinea. Another great birding adventure book is The Jewel Hunter by Chris Gooddie (Princeton Univ. I think of The Jewel Hunter often when I travel to foreign countries, wishing I could do it like Goodie did. Press, 2012).