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Three Interesting Things

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But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. A group of researchers at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. Birds research'

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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He is a current member of the North Carolina Bird Records Committee and an eBird coordinator for North Carolina. The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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” The interlocking wheels of crabs, migration, birds, tides, marsh, beach, fishermen and researchers are described in an unhurried pace in ten chapters. Once used as fertilizer, the crabs are now harvested as bait for common whelk and bled for an extract used in medical research.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time.

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