Comments on: One could say that bats evolved twice https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/ Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522997 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:15:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522997 cool!

]]> By: Rebecca Nesbit https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522996 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:35:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522996 I had no idea you had such a diversity of Nightjars in America, I would love to see them. In England we have one – I took a video of ringing one caught in mist nets in my inlaws’ garden

http://thesciencesays.wordpress.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/user/RebeccaNesbit?feature=mhum

]]> By: Bill C. https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522995 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:58:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522995 We are lucky here at our forest-home in South East Queensland, Australia, to receive visits from the highly endangered Marbled Frogmouth; an extremely beautiful member of the family.

]]> By: Sara https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522994 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:26:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522994 Excellent post with a catchy title. The Illinois Natural History Survey has a Nightjar monitoring program called “MOON”.
http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/MOON/index.html

]]> By: BrokenDrum https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522993 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:44:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522993 I once heard an Australian researcher say that the way you find tawny frogmouths is to go out into some farmland and look for suspiciously tall fenceposts. He spent the rest of his talk taunting us with pictures very similar to the 4th one in this post.

]]> By: Markk https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522992 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:36:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522992 Commented on an earlier post that we weren’t seeing nighthawks in numbers in Wisconsin … well the migration is here – several hundred (!) passing the last week or so.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522991 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:21:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522991 Its Scottish, OK?

]]> By: Albatross https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522990 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:57:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/09/09/one-could-say-that-bats-evolve/#comment-522990 Is your “T” key sticky, or are “nighjars, nighhawks” (para 3) actually acceptable substitute names for “nightjars” and “nighthawks.” They might be for all I know.

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