"Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar."

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"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."

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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."

Bernard Meltzer, American Lawyer

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"I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them."

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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."

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"I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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"Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents."

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"Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song."

Music

"Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds."

Food

"Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs."

Music

"Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays."

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"Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection."

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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."

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"Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals."

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"Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals."

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"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."

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"Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools."

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