Showing posts with label Falconiformes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Falconiformes. Show all posts
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Wisdom

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  - Yes, my dear raven, the humans are denying direct realism again. They apparently think we don´t exist, or that we can´t see them. - Nor ...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Sheer evil

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  Is sheer evil on the loose in the Mogador archipelago off the coast of Morocco?!  The local population of Eleonora´s falcon is said to hun...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Cladistic art

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  If you know, you know. 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Next cousins

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  - So we are cousins then, my dear Sir Bustard... - Humpf, I don´t think so, you cuckoo clock trash! So a 2014 genetic study shows that bus...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Called it

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I know this is highly subjective, but I´m beginning to like cladistics. You know, that annoying shit which has created havoc in the evolutio...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Yes, storks

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A highly abberant stork? Only in California! “Handbook of the Birds of the World” (HBW for short) is a gargantuan encyclopedia in 17...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Falcons for full employment

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America´s strangest job? Yes, falcons are used to scare away "nuisance birds" from valuable crops. This short clip features an...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Meeting with gyrfalcons

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Sigurdur Aegisson is an Icelandic ethnologist. I haven´t   been able to find his book on Icelandic monster lore, “Meeting with monster...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Eufalconimorphae: Finally, a clade that makes some sense!

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If this idiot blogger calls me chicken one more time, I´m gonna go ultra-rogue on him! So DNA research suggests that falcons are more c...
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Wtf, I love falcons now

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“Europas rovfåglar” by Gunnar Pettersson is Swedish book about raptors or birds of prey. Published in 1984, it includes the falcons ...
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Saturday, September 8, 2018

Sociable weavers

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What can I say? This is vol. 15 of "Handbook of the Birds of the World", a 16-volume encyclopaedia describing and illustrati...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Young raptors

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"The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa" is neither a reference work nor a field guide, but rather a book introducing southern...