Naturalist Traces The Astounding Flyways Of Migratory Birds Scott Weidensaul has spent decades studying bird migration "There is a tremendous solace in watching these natural rhythms play out again and again," he says His new book is A World On the Wing
Animal apocalypse: Deadly bird flu infects hundreds of . . . As of March, H5N1 had leapt the species barrier to infect some 485 types of bird and at least 48 mammal species, according to United Nations estimates Many of these species had never been
The Origin and Diversification of Birds - ScienceDirect The origin of birds is now one of the best understood major transitions in the history of life It has emerged as a model case for using a combination of data from fossils, living species, genealogies, and numerical analyses to study how entirely new body plans and behaviors originate, and how prominent living groups achieved their diversity over hundreds of millions of years of evolution 2, 3
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10 birds that came back from the brink of extinction There are more than 26,500 species that are threatened with extinction on the list, including 14% of birds, according to the IUCN Just because a species is at risk of becoming extinct, however
bird lover | Flight Risk: Peter Kaestner a retired US . . . In the world of birding, Peter Kaestner stands alone No one has seen and identified more birds than Kaestner, a retired US diplomat who aspires to become the first birder to spot 10,000 of the planet’s roughly 11,000 avian species With 9,697 on his eBird list so far, he is getting close
List of penguins - Wikipedia Chinstrap penguin Penguins are birds in the family Spheniscidae in the monotypic order Sphenisciformes [1] They inhabit high-productivity marine habitats, almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere; the only species to occur north of the Equator is the Galapagos penguin