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Slow down and enjoy the birds. Feeder birds like titmice and chickadees are fun to watch, but they move so fast it’s hard to fully appreciate their flying skills. So Tim and Russell Laman used a 1,000-frames-per-second camera to slow down the action, revealing a whole ballet of intricate motions involved in landing at a feeder.

These little birds turn their bodies vertically in mid-air and almost fly backwards, braking with their tail and using their long legs as shock absorbers to stop on a dime. They’re so different from larger birds like Mourning Doves. At super-slo-mo,

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What’s new in Taxonomy – 2025 Edition
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What’s new in Taxonomy – 2025 Edition
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The Five Great Forests of Mesoamerica – Protecting Our Shared Birds

Each fall, billions of migratory birds lift off from parks and backyards in North America and funnel into Central America’s last large forests, where many will spend over half the year. A new study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reveals that Central America’s Five Great Forests (5GF) are crucial for migratory birds, supporting between one-tenth and nearly one-half of the global populations of 40 species — including Wood Thrush, Golden-winged Warblers,