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1 #BOU2022
Thank you and welcome – a wonderful honour to give this #BOU2022 #AlfredNewtonLecture talk. A sight for a curious naturalist: why is this warbler apparently so silly? Or, how does the cuckoo get away with this?
#ornithology
Thank you and welcome – a wonderful honour to give this #BOU2022 #AlfredNewtonLecture talk. A sight for a curious naturalist: why is this warbler apparently so silly? Or, how does the cuckoo get away with this?
#ornithology
2 #BOU2022
The talk celebrates Alfred Newton, founder of the BOU in 1858, the year of Darwin and Wallace’s papers proposing the theory of natural selection. Newton was an immediate early fan.
#ornithology
The talk celebrates Alfred Newton, founder of the BOU in 1858, the year of Darwin and Wallace’s papers proposing the theory of natural selection. Newton was an immediate early fan.
#ornithology
3 #BOU2022
Newton’s paper in 1869 suggested that egg-colour variation in different host-races of Common Cuckoos was a result of natural selection. He coined the term “gentes” (singular “gens”) for these host-races
Newton’s Nature paper: nature.com/articles/00107…
#ornithology
Newton’s paper in 1869 suggested that egg-colour variation in different host-races of Common Cuckoos was a result of natural selection. He coined the term “gentes” (singular “gens”) for these host-races
Newton’s Nature paper: nature.com/articles/00107…
#ornithology
🎧 Thread on @Music_Santhosh @pradeep_1123 tracks 💜 !!
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND | KABALI - THOONDIL MEEN FT.
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#throwback #Kabali #SanthoshNarayanan #SaNa #Dcuts🍽️
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND | KABALI - THOONDIL MEEN FT.
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#throwback #Kabali #SanthoshNarayanan #SaNa #Dcuts🍽️
🎧 REQUIEM FOR A DREAM | ENAKUL ORUVAN - BETRAYED POO AVIZHUM CUE OST FT.
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#enakkuloruvan #Siddarth
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#enakkuloruvan #Siddarth
🎧BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET, BEFORE MIDNIGHT | KAALA - KANNAMA FT.
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#kaala #rajini #kannama #PradeepKumar
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#kaala #rajini #kannama #PradeepKumar
#Inktober catch up 31/31 #Cuckoo #inktoberredlist I had to finish off with the cuckoo, as they symbolise for me what has been called 'shifting baseline' syndrome. My 'nature' base line of growing up the UK in the 70's was full of insects, and birds.
Huge flocks of sparrows, starlings and lapwing. So many flies and insects that we needed a fly screen on the back door. Thunderbugs and ladybird swarms. The car bonnet covered in insects after a short journey. The sound of cuckoo's every Spring. Dead hedgehogs on the roads!
That was my 'normal'. For most of my children's generation that has changed, to the point where they don't even know the names of everyday birds, because they've never seen one. @robgmacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt writing a book, The Lost Words, to help children 'rediscover' and
