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| | | | | Screenshot of Merlin Bird ID sound recording I've recently started using the Merlin Bird ID iOS app produced by The Cornell Lab, and I can't stop raving about how amazing it is. I had heard people say how good it was - particularly for identifying birds by their calls and songs, as it is often described as 'Shazam for birds' - but I had not got around to installing it. As you probably know, I am a biologist, and I am moderately proficient at identifying most British birds by sight. I can also turn my han... | |
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mmitii.mattballantine.com
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| | | | | This week I have learned: that the use of ellipses marks me out as GenX and may well be perceived as passive-aggressive. Thanks to Tom Whitwell for that nugget in here which has seriously made me rethink my approach to punctuation... that listening to the modern dramatisation of Microserfs has been an act of nostalgia... | |
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64reflections.home.blog
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| | | | | Here's a question that I know has been on your mind for ages: when is a goose not a goose? The answer is, quite simply, "When it's an Egyptian Goose." Despite its name and goose-like appearance this bird is actually a type of duck, most closely related to the Shelducks. And to complicate matters even... | |
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polarbearscience.com
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| | | An article in a UK newspaper yesterday contains a claim made by local residents that polar bears which used to hang around Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow) in western Alaska, are 'moving to Russia' (i.e. the Chukchi Sea) in a 'mass exodus'. It's certainly possible but if so, it should come as a surprise to... | ||
