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The search for the Yelkouan Petrel. Please HELP

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October 6, 2012

Help science to study and protect the vulnerable. Contribute your data to the cause. Graduate student seeks data on precise breeding islands of Yelkouan Shearwaters and their threats on those islands: I am looking for survey or observation years from islands (if available) where breeding is occurring or occurred in the past (if it is […]

New Rail species from Madagascar discovered in 2011

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March 4, 2012

2011, New species

Researchers from Madagascar and the United States have described a new species of forest-dwelling rail. The new bird was named Mentocrex beankaensis, with the genus Mentocrex being endemic to Madagascar and the new species beankaensis being coined after the type locality, the Beanka Forest in western central Madagascar. This species was distinguished from another in […]

Bryan’s Shearwater discovered in 2011

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March 4, 2012

2011, New species

For the first time in almost four decades, a new bird species has been discovered in the United States. But thereâ€™s a catch: the Bryanâ€™s shearwater was identified in a museum collection. Though others have been reported, the first living bird-in-hand example awaits finding. On February 7, 2012, the DNA tests on 6 specimens found […]

Scientists get first full look at prehistoric New Zealand penguin, the largest ever.

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March 3, 2012

Extinct, Sphenisciformes

Story After 35 years, a giant fossil penguin has finally been completely reconstructed, giving researchers new insights into prehistoric penguin diversity. The bones were collected in 1977 by Dr. Ewan Fordyce, a paleontologist from the University of Otago, New Zealand. In 2009 and 2011, Dr. Dan Ksepka, North Carolina State University research assistant professor of […]

Whitish House Sparrow (Passer Domesticus)

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February 28, 2012

Passeriformes

During a animal park visit I shot this photo of a whitish female House Sparrow. The one in the back is a normal colored female. They are free flying birds living of the food spoils in the zoo. Question is, is it a normal Sparrow with abnormal feather coloring or it is a hybrid. The […]