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Introduction | 1 | |
1 | The Evolution of Birds | |
Feathered Dinosaur or Flightless Bird: A New Find Stirs the Dust | 5 | |
Two Clues Supporting Idea That Birds Arose from Dinosaurs | 12 | |
Very Early Bird Had a Way to Catch Worms: In a Beak | 16 | |
Fossil "Terror Bird" Offers Clues to Evolution | 20 | |
2 | Family Life of Birds | |
Biologists Tell a Tale of Interfering In-Laws | 27 | |
Mating for Life? It's Not for the Birds or the Bees | 34 | |
For Warblers, More Songs Lead to More Extramarital Flings | 42 | |
Egret Chicks in the Nest Are Natural Born Killers | 45 | |
Designing Birds Impress Their Mates with Fancy Decor | 50 | |
3 | The Minds of Birds | |
Second Greatest Toolmaker? A Title Crows Can Crow About | 59 | |
To Remember Seed Caches, Bird Grows New Brain Cells | 64 | |
Brainy Parrots Dazzle Scientists, but Threat of Extinction Looms | 70 | |
Not Just Music, Bird Song Is a Means of Courtship and Defense | 77 | |
Gene May Help Birds Tune Out Sour Notes and Tune In Rivals | 84 | |
4 | Bird Biology and Behavior | |
Thuggish Cuckoos Use Muscle to Run Egg Protection Racket | 91 | |
For Remote Bird Species, the Sex of Hatchlings Is No Surprise | 96 | |
Seeking Food, Some Sea Birds Rely on the Sense of Smell | 100 | |
Raptors Found to Track Prey's Ultraviolet Trail | 103 | |
Eggs on Feet and Far from Shelter, Male Penguins Do a Shuffle | 105 | |
Juvenile Penguins Go Beyond Safe Area | 110 | |
Why Birds and Bees, Too, Like Good Looks | 112 | |
Canary Chicks: Not All Created Equal | 118 | |
Rabbits Beware! Some Birds of Prey Hunt in Packs | 124 | |
Meek Bird's Survival Secret: Picking Protective Neighbors | 130 | |
The All-Common Crow Has Much in Common with Human Neighbors | 132 | |
5 | Birds and Ecology | |
For Clues to Antarctica's Health, Ask a Penguin | 139 | |
More Than Decoration, Songbirds Are Essential to Forests' Health | 144 | |
Hornbills Are Lynchpins of Indonesian Rain Forest | 148 | |
Hummingbirds Bear Mixed Gift to Flowers in Tropical Forest | 152 | |
6 | Migration | |
Migrating Birds Set Compasses By Sunlight and Stars | 159 | |
Aircraft to Play Mother Goose in Unusual Rescue Experiment | 164 | |
Tiny Transmitters Make It Possible to Track Peregrines Day by Day | 168 | |
Songbird Migrations Tracked with Nocturnal Eavesdropping | 172 | |
Bird-Watching Biologists See Evolution on the Wing | 175 | |
7 | Protecting American Birds | |
Majestic Species' Fate May Ride on Wings of Six Freed Condors | 181 | |
Forest Decline in North Cited in Songbird Loss | 185 | |
Snow Geese Survive All Too Well, Alarming Conservationists | 188 | |
Birds Rescued in Spills Do Poorly, Study Finds | 193 | |
Kirtland's Warbler Finally Finds Lots of Burned Forest to Call Home | 196 | |
Who Will Come to Duck's Rescue? Ancient Forebears Are Enlisted | 199 | |
Predicting Bird Extinctions from Deforestation | 201 | |
Effort to Reintroduce Thick-Billed Parrots in Arizona Is Dropped | 204 | |
Decoys in Maine Lure Sea Birds, Gone a Century | 207 | |
Prairie Ducks Return in Record Numbers | 211 | |
8 | Protecting Birds Abroad | |
Exotic Birds, at Risk in Wild, May Be Banned as Imports to U.S. | 219 | |
Relative Puts Rare European Duck at Edge of Extinction | 224 | |
Mystery Surrounds Global Decline of Flying Robin-Size Predators | 227 | |
Old Nemesis, DDT, Reaches Remote Midway Albatrosses | 232 | |
Unusual Rescue Team, U.S. and Mexico, Tries to Save Rare Parrot | 237 | |
Treaty Partners Study Fate of Birds at Polluted Mexican Lake | 241 | |
A Former Resident of Guam Pins Survival Hopes on Another Island | 246 | |
Acid Rain Is Cutting Birds' Reproduction in a Dutch Forest | 249 | |
India Watches in Vain for Migrating Siberian Crane Flock | 252 | |
Rare Bird Illuminates Bitter Dilemma | 255 | |
Two-Nation Effort Aids Condors in Americas | 260 | |
9 | Birds and Birders | |
Flocks of Biologists Take Wing to Michigan for Mating Season | 265 | |
Harsh Lessons of Survival at the Bird Feeder | 269 | |
Army of Amateurs and Pros Discovers More Birds in Trouble | 272 | |
A Lone Naturalist Defends Secret Places of the Falklands | 276 | |
10 | Looking to the Future | |
Wild Turkeys Return to American Fields | 283 | |
A Bird's Race Toward Extinction Is Halted | 288 | |
A Cleaner Harbor Lures Water Birds to New York | 292 | |
Once Near Death, a Comeback Bird Thrives in Cities | 298 |
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