Awesome Things We Learned About Birds in 2022

This is Episode Number 67. It’s the last episode of 2022, so that means it’s the Annual Review!

We’re going to look back at 2022, at some of the most interesting scientific studies of birds that were published this year. 

Will this be a painstakingly thorough review of everything that scientists learned about birds in 2022? 

No. Not so much. The studies I’m telling you about today—while they did make it into the newsfeed—are just the ones that I found most exciting. Or at least interesting. I decided they’re worth yapping about.

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Links of Interest

• Cockatoos are in a "cultural arms race" with Sydney residents and their bins [VIDEO]
• Slow-motion video of woodpeckers hammering into wood [VIDEO]

References

• Hummingbird plumage color diversity exceeds the known gamut of all other birds
• Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot
• Woodpeckers minimize cranial absorption of shocks
• The homogenization of avian morphological and phylogenetic diversity under the global extinction crisis
• Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor
• Juvenile bar-tailed godwit "B6" Sets World Record
• Avian neurons consume three times less glucose than mammalian neurons
• Deterrence of birds with an artificial predator, the RobotFalcon
• How woodcocks produce the most brilliant white plumage patches among the birds

Link to this episode on the Science of Birds website

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