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		<title>Birds of Central America: Review</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/16/birds-of-central-america-review/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 19:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama make up Central America. Notice that had I not used the Oxford Comma there, you&#8217;d be thinking &#8220;Costa Rica and Panama&#8221; was a country like Trinidad and Tobago. Or Antigua and Barbuda. Or Bosnia and Herzegovina. Anyway, those countries have about 1261 species of birds, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/16/birds-of-central-america-review/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Birds of Central America: Review</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How To Reconcile the Insanity of Cladism with the Order and Beauty of the Linnaean System</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/06/27/how-to-reconcile-the-insanity-of-cladism-with-the-order-and-beauty-of-the-linnaean-system/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur. Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. To really understand the meaning of this, please read my brand new essay at 10,000 birds, here: If Birds are Dinosaurs &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/06/27/how-to-reconcile-the-insanity-of-cladism-with-the-order-and-beauty-of-the-linnaean-system/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How To Reconcile the Insanity of Cladism with the Order and Beauty of the Linnaean System</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>We knew either birds or technology would cause our demise. It turns out &#8230;.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/05/19/we-knew-either-birds-or-technology-would-cause-our-demise-it-turns-out/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 15:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is a conspiracy!!!! I love the way the parrot responds to Alexa&#8217;s response by first making bleepy-bloopy techie noises, then imitating the sound of all the manual light switches being thrown. But wait, there&#8217;s more. This parrot made an Alexa shopping list:]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birds of Australia: New Book</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/02/birds-of-australia-new-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian Birds]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are close to just under 900 species of bird in Australia, and The Australian Bird Guide by Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, and Kim Franklin covers just over 900 of them. Where do the extras come from? Sea birds in the nearby oceans, I think. This is an excellent &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/02/birds-of-australia-new-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Birds of Australia: New Book</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dinosaur eating insects!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/15/dinosaur-eating-insects/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Giant insects can eat tiny dinosaurs. In this case, the giant insects are praying mantis, and the dinosaurs are hummingbirds and other small birds. In some cases, maybe most cases, this involves small birds like hummingbirds being taken at nectar sites (natural or otherwise) by introduced species of praying mantis in the US. Here&#8217;s the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/15/dinosaur-eating-insects/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Dinosaur eating insects!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: New Field Guide</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/09/birds-of-europe-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-new-field-guide/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just got my copy of Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: A Photographic Guide by Frédéric Jiguet and Aurélien Audevard. This is the first and only field-ready photographic bird guide that covers every species in Europe. There are 2,200 photos covering 860 species. The West Asian and North African coverage is of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/03/09/birds-of-europe-north-africa-and-the-middle-east-new-field-guide/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Birds of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: New Field Guide</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do you get a sex chromosome? A little bird told me this&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/20/how-do-you-get-a-sex-chromosome-a-little-bird-told-me-this/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[bird research]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is sex? Musings at 10,000 Birds: This is a simple question with a complicated answer. Part of the answer is this: The biological identity of an individual that guides its choice of mate. So, in a simple version of the world of a bird, there are two sexes, male and female, and males chose &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/20/how-do-you-get-a-sex-chromosome-a-little-bird-told-me-this/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How do you get a sex chromosome? A little bird told me this&#8230;</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Best Bird Books</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/08/the-best-bird-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few suggestions for holiday gifts, or library upgrades, in the topic of birds. Thinking About Birds Thinking Some very interesting books came out this year that investigate bird brains. Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence by Nathan Emery is the best current book on animal intelligence, and one of the best bird books &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/12/08/the-best-bird-books/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Best Bird Books</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rare Nearly Extinct Crow Uses Tools</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/21/rare-nearly-extinct-crow-uses-tools/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is just a pointer to my latest post at 10,000 birds on a tool using crow from Hawaii, as well as recent climate change related threats to the birds of that island state.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Very Smart Birds, Very Smart Bird Book</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/20/very-smart-birds-very-smart-bird-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Crows are smart. Anyone who watches them for a while can figure this out. But that is true of a lot of things. Your baby is smart (not really). Your dog is smart (not really). Ants are smart (sort of). It takes a certain degree of objective research, as well as some serious philosophy of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/20/very-smart-birds-very-smart-bird-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Very Smart Birds, Very Smart Bird Book</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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