Subject: [Tweeters] mystery birds, new gecko species (links)
Date: Nov 8 07:09:12 2008
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


Hello Tweeties,

the most recently demystified mystery bird wasm courtesy of Joseph Kennedy, a breathtaking adult male Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, as you all identified correctly;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/11/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_70.php

please refer back to this link to read Rick's interesting essay (and to see the bird again!)

today's mystery bird, courtesy of photographer, Richard Ditch, can be seen here;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/11/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_43.php

this is off-topic but very interesting: A new species of gecko has been discovered in the Vanuatu Archipelago, on the island of Espiritu Santo;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/11/tiny_gecko_species_discovered.php

I dug up some nice images for you to look at and linked to the original Zootaxa paper (the abstract is free).

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC