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Hermit Thrush Song Differs Across North America

Hermit Thrush Song Differs Across North America
By Macaulay Library Team
Across the far reaches of America, the English language is spoken in colorful variation. If you’re Texan, I reckon y’all fixin’ for some coke in this summer heat, but as a Michigander, yuh guys go tuh gedduh pop. New Yorkers and Bostonians drink soda, but some wicked wee-id Bostonians drink tonic, while some New Yorkers…
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Dance Moves Support Evidence for New Bird-of-Paradise Species

Dance Moves Support Evidence for New Bird-of-Paradise Species
By Macaulay Library Team
The Superb Bird-of-Paradise—the shape-shifting black bird of central New Guinea that woos its mate with an iridescent blue “smiley-face” dance—has an equally superb cousin in the isolated mountains of Indonesia’s Bird’s Head Peninsula in the island’s far west. Scientist Ed Scholes and photographer Tim Laman, with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birds-of-Paradise Project, have now…
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