Birds

Magazine articles on birds.

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Geotimes June 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
Outside March 2006 Wells Tower	The Thing with Feathers Is it a bird or a haunting memory? Tracking an uncertain resurrection in the big woods of Arkansas
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Seabird Guano Changes the Arctic Seabirds in the Arctic act as "funnels," concentrating toxic chemical compounds collected from elsewhere and carried in their excretions into "hot spots" in terrestrial Arctic ecosystems, on land and in freshwater lakes.
Scientific American August 2005 Marguerite Holloway	When Extinct Isn't Questioning the term after the ivory-billed woodpecker's return.
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
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