10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent focuses on this last question, but you might find yourself fascinated by the first two, which come early in the book but linger on in the imagination as author Danielle J. Do birds use odors and a sense of smell to communicate with each other? But Danielle Whittaker has.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Until turkey size or so. And smaller.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
A flying but biggish (as in chicken-turkey-size) bird gave rise to a basal non-flying bird that broke up through vicariance into the diversity we see today. It is notable that the basal Ratite, the South American Tinamous, flies. This suggests that Ratites flew, and the story was nice and clean.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. See: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs? That was a long time ago and we’ve made nearly zero progress in this area. Well, maybe a little better than that but not much.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2012
Kestrel , Northern Harrier , Great Blue Heron , and Wild Turkey. The lovely ladies of the MD Ornithological Society (with me in tow!) found 36 species, including Killdeer (in December!), Scotts Bluff National Monument, NE – During the War, Native American raids prompted the U.S.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. top: Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ), bottom: Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.
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