ornithology
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Extremely Weird Bird Hybrid Is Back And Looking To Bone
Last fall, the birdwatching community was shocked by the appearance of a small yellow bird. Birder Matthew Grube first spotted it off of a trail near Riverside, California, noting that it looked like a hybrid of two birds from different taxonomic families. This perplexing creature has recently returned to the area, and it’s looking to…
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Nah Or Aww? Human-Size Penguins Once Waddled Across New Zealand
A fossil discovery has added another entry to the list of comically large New Zealand birds: a 1.5 metre tall penguin.
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DNA Testing Reveals Baffling Bird Is Three Species In One
A Pennsylvania birder spotted the bird of a lifetime in his backyard this past autumn — it was a hybrid of three species across two genera in a single bird. He’d found a three-in-one warbler.
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DNA Evidence Reveals True Identity Of Elusive Bird Species
Ornithologist Wulf Gatter spent six days a week observing birds in the forest of Liberia, the West African country. He spotted one seen nowhere else, a medium-sized yellow songbird, on nine occasions during the county’s annual dry season lasting from November to February. It looked quite similar to another species, but had never-before-seen white markings…