Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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Long Live the King of the Meadow
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Today I published a 39-tweet story over the course of 6 hours: a day in the life of a meadowbird researcher in the Netherlands. Here it is fully assembled.
Read MoreAirborne Identity
/California or the Yukon? You can use DNA from a single feather to find out where a migrating bird hails from, and where it stops along the way (I wrote a story about this for Living Bird Magazine).
Wilson's Warbler, the star of this study. Drawn in 2008 for Acadia Birding Festival.
Lizard limbo
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The Sleepy Lizard – half lizard, half pinecone – lives in shrublands and scrublands of southern Australia, where dry summers alternate with moist winters. What happens if those winters disappear?
Read MoreRed Giant Flying Squirrels
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These are Red Giant Flying Squirrels, and guess what, breaking news! Researchers in the Indian Himalayan rainforest have been watching them glide. Yep, watching nocturnal squirrels glide, in the dark, with night vision binoculars. Why? you ask.
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