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New interactive avian tree of life lets you trace 11,000 bird species back through time

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...
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66th Supplement to the Check-list of North American birds released

The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published in Ornithology, includes several significant updates to the classification of bird ...
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Nage Birds. Issues in the Analysis of Ethnoornithological Classification

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay describes the classification of birds found among the Nage people of Flores, Indonesia. Consisting partly of bird names given in ...
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Study of Darwin's finches reveals that new species can develop in as little as two generations

The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galápagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel way in which new species arise. On Nov. 23 in the journal ...