How shelducks decide on their travel plans

From: “Consistent habitat preference underpins the geographically divergent autumn migration of individual Mongolian common shelducks”, F. Meng, X. Wang, N. Batbayer, T. Natsagdorj, B. Davaasuren, I. Damba, L. Cao, and A.D. Fox (2019), Current Zoology 56 https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz056 Common Shelducks (Tadorna tadorna) are a largish species of black, white and brown ducks found across Europe, Asia …

A House Divided: what splits a lineage of birds?

From “Deep south-north genetic divergence in Godlewski’s bunting (Emberiza godlewskii) related to uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and habitat preferences”, J. Li, G, Song, N. Liu, Y. Change and X. Bao (2019), BMC Evolutionary Biology 19:161 From almost the beginning of recorded history through to the twentieth century the basic unit of Chinese politics has …

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