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Backyard flock biosecurity matters more right now and this is the simple routine to follow

Backyard chickens have shifted from novelty to normal, but the disease pressure around them has shifted too. With highly ...
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For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you’re faster than your neighbor

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the frothy wavefront as it surged and retreated. Nearby, Caspian terns, ...
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For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you’re faster than your neighbor

Joan Strassman wrote a book, The Social Lives of Birds, and this piece might increase sales of this book since it is about the same topic and is cited. The late Oxford University biologist William D.