Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

Among the many unique qualities of this long-extinct Antarctic bird, it seems to have been the earliest creature that could ...

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