Saturday 12 September 2015

Reconstructing a vanished bird community from the Ice Age

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Reconstructing a vanished bird community from the Ice Age
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2015 - Visit Peru's Talara Tar Seeps today and you'll see a desert, but 15,000 years ago, the area was grassland and forest, roamed by dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. If you had gone for a walk in the Talara during the last ice age, what birds would you have heard singing? For a new study published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, Jessica Oswald (now at Louisiana State University) and Dav ... more


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