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Vote Now for Awesome Ornithology Projects!

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Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. My research proposal “ Towards a mechanistic understanding of feather colors ”, investigates the genetic basis for color patterns in birds. To win, we need your votes! What are the mechanisms by which this occurs? My Project.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.