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    <title>Nature Network - birds</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for birds</description>
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      <title>Salit Kark</title>
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        <![CDATA[Salit Kark - ]]>
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      <title>Birds of a feather, endangered together</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Scientists at Imperial's NERC Centre for Population Biology have completed an "evolutionary family tree of British birds":http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_11-6-2008-12-24-29?newsid=38354. This could be a useful tool for conservationists who can use it to predict which species will become threatened based on close relationship]]>
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      <title>The Avocets of Romance </title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Today Mrs Gee and I cheerfully put Gees Minor and Minima aboard the -Fairy Bus To The Dungeons- Brownies' half-term excursion, which meant we had Saturday all to ourselves. Bliss!! I planned a Romantic Excursion, and being the Weekend Ecowarriors]]>
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      <title>Lecture:  Shrinking Habitats, Species Survival</title>
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        <![CDATA[Simon Laman - Two talks on Earthwatch projects, ‘South Africa’s Brown Hyenas’ and ‘Wildlife of the Mongolian Steppe’, species in the one case often unfairly maligned, and in the other, sadly under- researched.]]>
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      <title>How now, brown-headed cowbird?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Wild turkeys are up, kestrels are down, and robins are holding steady. These are some of the early findings from "Breeding Bird Atlas 2":http://www.massaudubon.org/birdatlas/bba2/ (BBA2), a five-year initiative by Mass Audubon that began in 2007 to measure bird population trends]]>
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      <title>My first award!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Charles Darwin - Although in comments "Dr. Gee":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee hints that my alma mater Cambridge has something to say about my academic achievements (I don't know why, I was a most indifferent student in sensuo stricto, although I hope I did not subsequently disgrace]]>
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      <title>Using citizen science for reconciliation ecology</title>
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        <![CDATA[Madhusudan Katti - I have always been a proponent of involving amateur naturalists as integral participants in ecological research, and believe this is especially important for those of us interested in addressing environmental problems in all their messy socio-ecological complexity. I have had]]>
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      <title>Jeremy Taylor</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeremy Taylor - ]]>
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      <title>Birdsong</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Aagh! On the latest "Birds in the News":http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/03/birds_in_the_news_121.php, Grrlscientist put up this picture of a cassowary:]]>
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      <title>derek crawley</title>
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        <![CDATA[derek crawley - ]]>
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