And reappears again: Dodo
A short piece showed up today in my inbox and once again addressed the famously extinct species, dodo. A site called Afriquejet.com is reporting on a joint scientific team made up of Dutch, British and...
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Chemicals to the rescue
I found this story today (actually it was filed three days ago) from the AP via ABC News. What makes this very interesting to me personally is the fact that I know all the players involved and have a...
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Man bites dog
Or at least something equally amazing. Great tits (cue the laugh track) are birds of the Old World very similar to our New World chickadees. Similar enough to be in the same family–Paridae. (great tit)...
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Name that scavenger
According to Oregonlive.com, a couple of rehabilitated turkey vultures are anxious to be named by you, the public. And a new aviary is being built to handle the birds which will be kept at the Oregon...
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Like America the Brits are speedily erecting monuments to the false god known as energy independence. The monuments are called wind farms. Rather accurately, one commenter to this article in the Times...
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Scientific swing-and-a-miss
CBS News has the story, which is their synopsis on an article in Science. It’s headlined: Bird Breathing Helped Dinosaur Ancestors (photo from marathonbooks.com) They are saying alligators breathe in a...
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More trouble in the hallowed halls
"This issue isn’t resolved at all. There are just too many inconsistencies with the idea that birds had dinosaur ancestors, and this newest study adds to that." Said John Ruben, zoology prof at Oregon...
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Broken promise. But for a good reason.
Many months ago I made a commitment to entirely shun any entries regarding West Nile virus or bird flu. I tire of those stories quite quickly, they being the same old crap rehashed and retold, and for...
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Sometimes it’s best to admire instead of emulate
As an aviator and a bird watcher, the video below brings together both elements rather poignantly for me. It was an email sent from a retired military/airline guy which included the video. ItÂ...
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One of many elephants in the living room
“Gov. Jerry Brown in April signed into law a mandate that a third of the electricity used in California come from renewable sources, including wind and solar, by 2020. The new law is the most...
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