hello tweeties,

i have been very busy putting together several things for you to read and enjoy. first, i write about a paper about eurasian jackdaws and their uncanny ability to read people's gaze;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/human_eyes_speak_volumes_to_bi.php

here is this week's issue of Birds in the News, featuring, among other things, an image of a common cuckoo and some April Fools Day stories;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/birds_in_the_news_166.php

today's mystery bird, thanks to photographer, Joseph Kennedy, can be viewed here;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_196.php

to address a tremendous deficiency in the blogosphere, i launched a new blog carnival that celebrates the best recent science, nature and medical writing published in the blogosphere. "Scientia pro Publica" (Science for the People) includes a suite of wonderful writing about a huge variety of scientific topics, including a fair number of essays about birds. it's better than a magazine because it is timely and most of the pieces are written by scientists or professional science writers;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/scientia_pro_publica_1.php

for those of you who are interested in invertebrates, here is today's issue of Circus of the Spineless, which includes essays about birds! Well, the essays are about invertebrates -- as bird food;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/circus_of_the_spineless.php

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
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