Birder's World June 2006
What Feathers Do
Twenty-three essential functions that feathers perform for owls, roadrunners, penguins, herons, and other birds.
by PETER STETTENHEIM
Wait Till It Moves
Why Brown Creepers, American Woodcocks, Killdeer, bitterns, and other birds can vanish right before your eyes.
by ELDON GREIJ
Snow in Silicon Valley
Why a surprising rookery in Palo Alto, California, is the place to go to watch young Snowy Egrets and developing feathers.
by MARK BOHRER
Colors: What We See
How chemistry and structure combine to make macaws scarlet, orioles orange, and jays blue.
by JULIE FEINSTEIN
Colors: What Birds See
What waxwings, swallows, mockingbirds, wrens, and other familiar birds can see and we can't.
by ADAM MARCUS
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