There is an exciting new study in Science that reshuffles the avian phylogeny pretty thoroughly - Grrrrl and Greg have excellent summaries.
As a part of the monthly topic being birds in June, there is an ongoing Journal Club on PLoS ONE.
And if that is not enough birds for you today, the new edition of I and the Bird #78 is up on It's just me.
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This is a summary of several of the better books I’ve had the opportunity to review here, organized in general categories.
tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
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Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus':
Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec?
(Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.)
Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.