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𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

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DEI For Birds Could Improve Avian Conservation

A new study finds that overlooking the lives of female birds can have severe conservation consequences

Mar 31

DEI For Birds Could Improve Avian Conservation

Mar 31

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Female Southern Pied Babblers Get Stupider As They Produce More Offspring

Having lots of children isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Mar 31

Female Southern Pied Babblers Get Stupider As They Produce More Offspring

Mar 31

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The Academic

Three For The Price Of One: Genomics Reveals Three Distinct Cockatoo Species

An international collaboration of scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could positively impact the conservation of three…

Mar 28

Three For The Price Of One: Genomics Reveals Three Distinct Cockatoo Species

Mar 28

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Nerves Of Steel: Canada Geese Don’t Flee Far From Gun-Toting Hunters

Can a wildlife management area support both wildlife and human recreational opportunities, particularly hunting?

Mar 24

Nerves Of Steel: Canada Geese Don’t Flee Far From Gun-Toting Hunters

Mar 24

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Return To The Sky By Tina Morris — Review

A moving memoir by one of the first women to ever lead a raptor reintroduction project.

Mar 22

Return To The Sky By Tina Morris — Review

Mar 22

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This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all…

Mar 17

This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets

Mar 17

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How To Disease-Proof Your Wild Bird Feeders

Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding — but there…

Mar 14

How To Disease-Proof Your Wild Bird Feeders

Mar 14

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How Critically Endangered Kākāpō Survived Centuries Of Inbreeding

Analysis of entire genomes from New Zealand’s critically endangered, flightless parrots found they carry exceptionally few harmful genetic…

Mar 12

How Critically Endangered Kākāpō Survived Centuries Of Inbreeding

Mar 12

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Cranial Morphology Confirms There Really Are Four Giraffe Species

Originally assumed to comprise just one species, new research confirms 50 years of detailed studies that find that giraffes comprise at…

Mar 3

Cranial Morphology Confirms There Really Are Four Giraffe Species

Mar 3

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Giant Hairy Pitcher Plant Discovered In Northern Borneo

Discovered in the ultramafic mountains in central Sabah, the species was named for the orangutan, due to its hairs’ striking resemblance to…

Feb 28

Giant Hairy Pitcher Plant Discovered In Northern Borneo

Feb 28

𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

11.8K Followers

PhD evolutionary ecology/ornithology. Psittacophile. SciComm senior contributor at Forbes, former SciComm at Guardian. Also on Substack at 'Words About Birds'.

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