News

New Zealand Geographic – The Future of the World is Written in Penguin Blood


From the Brink


Tawaki Project – Facebook


Avian Hybrids – An Overview of Hybridization in Birds




DU Magazine – Understanding Waterfowl: Masters of the Air and Water


News@TheU: Student researches penguin species thriving in New Zealand




Audio of Ripper the ‘talking’ Australian duck rediscovered


SRQ – Guitar Hero Tinkerer Tom McCracken Makes Music at the Fab Lab


Ducks Unlimited – The Surprising Genetics of American Black Ducks and Mallards: Cutting-edge Research Offers Good News for One Species and Raises Potential Concerns for the Other, by Philip Lavretsky


EurekAlert! – The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Nature Reviews Microbiology – Host–microbiome interactions lost during flight

ScienceDaily – Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

ZME SCIENCE – Birds and bats have very weird gut bacteria, and it’s likely linked to flying


Wired Magazine



Evolution Digest: A single genetic origin and a role for bone development pathways in repeated losses of flight in steamer ducks


Ciencia Café Pa Sumercé


Nature – Genomic Mechanisms for the Evolution of Flightlessness in Steamer Ducks


BIRDGUIDES -Torrent Duck: one species or three?




Inside JEB – Andean and Tibetan Birds Crack Breathing Different Ways


Inside JEB – Birds Do Not Work Harder to Breathe




Living Bird Magazine – Saving a Species by Splitting It: The Case for the Ruddy-headed Goose


News@TheU – Unique Adaptations Help Ducks Thrive in the Andes


The Scientist Magazine – High-flying Ducks


Wired Magazine – Absurd Creature of the Week: The Vicious Duck That Beats the Crap Out of Anything that Moves


Kevin G. McCracken named Kushlan Chair in Waterbird Biology and Conservation






The New York Times – In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in Evolution of Genetalia

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