Birds

Magazine articles on birds.

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Smithsonian August 2005 Scott Weidensaul	Presence of Mind - Ghost of a Chance How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
Smithsonian June 2005 Laura Helmuth	Editor's Note - Seeing A Ghost A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas.
Science News March 26, 2005 Janet Raloff	Fowl News--Food Additive's Extra Benefit A food additive that keeps foods fresh could one day be prescribed to domesticated turkeys. And if it protects people from the effects of a class of common food-borne poisons as well as it does the birds, the additive might be touted on food labels as a cancer fighter.
Science News October 16, 2004	Bird Calls Download the songs of various backyard birds, from chickadees to goldfinches, at the Macaulay Library at Cornell University's Web site.
Smithsonian April 2004 Robert Earle Howells	Points of Interest - Birds of a Feather Scores of teams battle for fame and glory in the no-holds-barred World Series of Birding.
Outside February 2004 Bill Vaughn	Birds on a Wire Sex. Danger. Family values. This backyard soap opera has it all -- plus feathers, razor-sharp talons, and a neighborhood obsessed. How a utility company moved an osprey nest from a dangerous power line
Reactive Reports Issue 36 David Bradley	Fly away Peregrine falcons could soon be back on the endangered list not five years after being removed, according to Swedish researchers who have found that the bird's eggs contain high levels of the most widely used flame retardant, deca-BDE.
Science News November 29, 2003 Janet Raloff	Talking Turkey (with recipe) They can weigh in at 40 pounds or more. They prefer walking, but they can fly. And if Benjamin Franklin had had his way, they would be the U.S. national symbol. We're talking turkey -- wild turkey, that is.
Wired December 2003 Martha Baer	The Ultimate on-the-fly Network How a flock of reclusive seabirds became pioneers of pervasive computing. A case study from the sensor net frontier.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	New Feeder Foils Squirrels There have been some squirrel-proof feeders on the market, but now Droll Yankee has come out with the Cadillac version of squirrel-proof feeders.
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