Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify
Category: Mystery Birds
Here's an easy Australian bird for you to identify, thanks to a generous photographer
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GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in OpenLab2009.
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November 20, 2009
Category: Mystery Birds
Here's an easy Australian bird for you to identify, thanks to a generous photographer
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Category: Streaming videos
I love cicadas, and this video about a cicada who learns the "wrong" song is just so sweet! The star of this video was introduced to salsa music while still in his egg, but he still manages to find true love.
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Category: Streaming videos
About the true love of two apple worms becoming separated during harvest times, but like my love story, this one has a happy ending
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Category: Expat Life
I am now officially an American Expat: I am living overseas as a foreign national and except for visits, I plan never to return to the United States
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November 19, 2009
Category: Relocating Overseas
I am on the plane with my parrots, flying to Frankfurt right now, but wrote this to amuse you (and to remind you that I am thinking about all of you, even while relocating)
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Category: Mystery Birds
Here's a challenging North American species for you to identify, thanks to a photographer who is new to the daily Mystery Birds!
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Category: Streaming videos
Imagine the crisis that occurred when President Obama's teleprompter unexpectedly stopped functioning during a family dinner
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Category: Streaming videos
A love story, starring those sweet little ladybugs. But this love story has a hidden message under all the gooey kisses.
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November 18, 2009
Category: Mystery Birds
Here's an interesting species for you to identify, thanks to a talented and generous photographer
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Category: Streaming videos
Now this is a very cute video. It follows the story of a honeybee that flies into a house and becomes a prisoner inside. A fly discovers the trapped bee on the opposite side of the window glass and then the unexpected happens.
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