Spotting this Little Owl (Athene noctua) on a sun-warmed rock in Nicosia, its sharp yellow eyes were perfectly focused. An alert daytime hunter. https://t.co/g2QeyTOekx
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On the long journey from Africa, this Lesser Whitethroat stopped to rest & feed in Cyprus.
Criminal gangs use lime sticks & mist nets to catch songbirds in staggering numbers - last fall, well over half a million were killed.
Trapping has increased by 76% in one year.
Why do birds have different eye colors? The short answer is we don't know. The long answer is in our new review article, up now as a preprint! We look at the pigments, genes, and evolutionary forces that give birds eyes their colors. https://t.co/XrvuUl3lll
Sad news of death of Ed Wilson. Great entomologist, ecologist, greatest myrmecologist, invented sociobiology, pioneer of island biogeography, genial humanist & biophiliac, Crafoord & Pulitzer Prizes, great Darwinian (single exception, blind spot over kin selection). R.I.P.