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How Do Darwin’s Finches Change Their Beak Size So Quickly?
Epigenetics may be how Darwin’s finches rapidly change their beak size and shape in response to sudden environmental changes, such as drought or human…
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Kestrel-Friendly Cherry Orchards May Produce Safer Food
Encouraging tiny falcons to nest in fruit orchards reduces fruit loss to birds and safeguards against contamination by microbial pathogens
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Are Bird Feeders Driving Evolution Of Longer Beaks In British Tits?
How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a British backyard bird…
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Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab -- Book Review
This engaging young readers' mystery is solved by twin amateur sleuths who invent and build several science-y gadgets to aid them in their quest.
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Climate Change Transforms These Cute Little Birds Into Murderous Brain-Eating Zombies
Due to climate change-caused nesting overlap, serious conflicts over nest cavities transform cute little birds into vicious brain-eating murderers
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Meet The Songbirds Of The Arctic Sea: Bowhead Whales
The Critically Endangered bowhead whale is unusual amongst mammals because they, like songbirds, sing a diverse repertoire of many distinct and complex…
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How do hummingbirds survive cold nights?
Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night.
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Vintage Crime: A Short History Of Wine Fraud By Rebecca Gibb — Review
A highly entertaining and well-researched tour of wine fraud from ancient Roman times up to the present day.
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Microplastics Contaminate HALF Of All Freshwater Insects, Study Shows
Plastic pollution is not limited to the world’s oceans: it is present in freshwater ecosystems too, where it is far more pervasive than originally…
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Festive Fireworks Create Harmful Pall Of Pollution
Fireworks create highly toxic gases and pollutants that poison the air, the water and the soil, making them toxic to all living things but there are…
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How Do Fireworks Harm Wild Birds?
Fireworks mean that New Year's Eve can be a dangerous time for birds. Should we try alternatives to blowing stuff up?
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Watch: Nature by Numbers
Mathematics helps us discover nature: A stunning movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila.
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Words About Birds
Words About Birds
Filled with reports about science, along with stories, opinions, and book reviews. Originally only about birds but this Substack now covers a variety of biology, zoology, conservation and health topics. I publish material every MWF.

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