Birds

Magazine articles on birds.

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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.
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.
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