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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring.

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

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Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. Male and female Yellow-rumps pair up on their breeding grounds, share duties in raising chicks, then politely part ways when fall migration comes.

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Parental Investment Theory

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The most like strategy of investment by bird parents to evolve is probably both parents caring for the offspring, probably taking turns at the nest, and bringing food back to the chick. In Elk and other deer, to varying degrees and depending on species, males grow antlers that seem to demonstrate their qualities as potential mates.

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. In the marshes of the estancia , he discovers what he comes to believe is a new species of rail – one of the “accidentals” of the title. With no great fondness for his tech job in the U.S., Gabe agrees to come along.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species!

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