Birds

Magazine articles on birds.

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Smithsonian September 2007 Kennedy Warne	The Amazing Albatrosses They fly 50 miles per hour. Go years without touching land. Predict the weather. Mate for life. And they're among the world's most endangered birds. Can albatrosses be saved?
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	On the Path of Bird Flu U.S.G.S. biologists are tracking the migration of bar-tailed godwits and other wild migratory birds via satellite to find out if they are likely vectors of H5N1 bird flu.
Smithsonian March 2007 Eric Jaffe	Wiseguys with Wings "Mafia" cowbirds muscle warblers into raising their young.
Smithsonian February 2007 Susan McGrath	The Vanishing Little noticed by the outside world, perhaps the most dramatic decline of a wild animal in history has been taking place in India and Pakistan. Large vultures, vitally necessary and once numbering in the tens of millions, now face extinction. But why?
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe	Soaring Hopes Vulture conservationists in India had a happy New Year indeed: The first chick to breed in captivity hatched on January 1, and a second hatched four days later.
Chemistry World January 15, 2007 John Bonner	Human Proteins Produced in Hens' Eggs Scientists have laid the foundations for a new method of producing complex biomolecules: getting chickens to lay them in their eggs.
Smithsonian December 2006	Living With Geese Novelist and gozzard Paul Theroux ruminates about avian misconceptions, anthropomorphism and March of the Penguins as "a travesty of science."
Smithsonian November 2006 Jerry Adler	Song and Dance Man Growing up in a gritty urban neighborhood, Erich Jarvis dreamed of becoming a ballet star. Now the neurobiologist's studies of how birds learn to sing are forging a new understanding of the human brain.
Scientific American July 2006 Steve Mirsky	For the Birds Hawking interesting avians in the urban environment
Geotimes June 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in China have unearthed well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor.
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