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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. You may think of penguins as cold-adapted and they are, but there are penguins living in temperate and tropical areas as well.

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Uganda’s Billion Dollar Bird: The Shoebill

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Penguins are, obviously, penguins, which makes them awesome. Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. Not all birds are created equal. The Resplendent Quetzal boasts a tail so long that people travel the world to admire it.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well. Cucherousset, J.,

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Where to See Kiwi (and other birds) During the Rugby World Cup

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This is a good place to see the endangered and beautiful Yellowhead and the endemic Yellow-eyed Penguin. Along with the Northern Royal Albatrosses the peninsula also has a good population of Yellow-eyed Penguin, and you don’t have to get on a boat to see either! Yellow-eyed Penguin at Otago Peninsula.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). The penguin fanatics.

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

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He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

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Unlucky Ducks, Lucky Penguins, and Good-Luck Ostriches

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Duck hunters and wildlife officials alike worry that the spill will affect both hunting season and migration. While penguins who live in Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium don’t have to worry about oil spills or other environmental disasters, they have problems of their own. Or, as penguins do, waddle.) The end result?

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