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.
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Airborne 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 MoreOwl-style survival gear
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Tawny owls come in two colors: gray or brown. Brown morphs seem to fare poorly during harsh winters. Do gray morphs have feathers with better insulation?
Read MoreYipes, stripes
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This week's breaking news is that we (still) don't know what zebra stripes are for! A new study says, rather unshockingly, that they probably aren't much use as camouflage.
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