Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
The island of Mainau has been designed, decades ago, as a gigantic garden, natural preserve, and a model of sustainability. Thus, animals roaming the island are exceptionally fearless of humans. For this picture, taken during lunch on the island, all...
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Category: Birds
Gunnar Engblom has another hit: Twitter for birders - Part 1. An introduction - which starts introductory enough, but I am intrigued by the last sentence: In part 2 of "Twitter for birders" I will tell you how something called...
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Category: Birds
Gunnar Engblom explains Facebook to newbies. Just go to Facebook and search for 'Birding' - people, groups, events....
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Category: Animal Behavior
Naughty male Australian satin bower bird selectively steals blue items to decorate his nest. The female bower birds rate their partner by their home decor so they do a lot of stealing....
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Category: Evolution
And blogging about! Obligatory readings of the day: The Evolution of Poisonous Birds: This research elegantly demonstrates that the evolution of just one character -- in this case, toxicity -- can profoundly affect the evolution of a suite of other...
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Category: Birds
According to this article: Fascinating birds migration at EuroBirdwatch 2008: Over the past weekend, 50.000 adults and children from over 30 European countries took up EuroBirdwatch 2008, BirdLife's invitation to observe the fascinating migration, as birds move south across Europe...
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Category: Ecology
Thanks Bill for drawing my attention to iNaturalist which has the makings of an awesome site! What is it? It is essentially a Google Map where people can add pins every time they see an interesting critter: a plant,...
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Category: Personal
I got some old, old pictures of me, in the animal room at NCSU, holding one male and one female Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica):...
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