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| Blog Name: |
FinchWench |
| Url: |
http://finchwench.wordpress.com |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
birds, ornithology, aviculture |
| Description: |
photo-rich posts on birds in science, in aviculture, in rehabilitation, in the news, in the wild, and wheresoever else we may encounter them . . . |
| Popularity: |
1 Followers |
Tiresias, the blind singer
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While his name is Tiresias, I do not expect him, after being transformed into a woman for a finite time, to report that the female Zebra Finches enjoy sex 10x more than the males. Tiresias is not ... |
Spice of Life
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Himalayan Greenfinch (Carduelis spinoides)Saffron’s day out, 25 October 2009His name is Saffron (and to avoid confusion, at least in my mind, I refer to the Saffron Finches as the “Flaveolas.”) He... |
Cold Case
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A DC Bird Blogger wrote: “It is important to look up to see birds, but some interesting sights are at your feet, too.” He was referring to ice crystallization patterns, and unless he was trying to... |
Year of the Black-billed Magpie!!!
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The first* (and second) positively identified bird of the New Year for me was a Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia), spotted alongside Hwy 160 on the way to Wolf Creek ski area. And that was the f... |
Can-can: Toucan to Pelican
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Last week, I was at the 3rd ICMOBT in Clearwater Beach, FL. There, I finally met Professor Julian Vincent, whom I knew until then only from his text. He is a biologist among mechanical and mater... |
Go, Team Tookie!
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Having discovered that my mother’s cockatiel, Tookie, is a choreographic prodigy, we contacted Dr. Aniruddh Patel, who led the study of Snowball’s moves. He and Dr. John Iverson of the Neuroscienc... |
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