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	Wing Image Collection URL: http://www.ups.edu/x5662.xml ODP description: The Slater Museum of Natural History provides a comprehensive selection of photographs of bird wings. Page title: Slater Museum :: Wing Image Collection
	Electronic Resources on Ornithology URL: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/bird.html ODP description: Annotated links and ornithological articles by Christopher Majka.
	When and How do Birds Migrate URL: http://www.earthlife.net/birds/migration2.html ODP description: Article discussing the varying strategies adopted by birds in finding their way when taking part in their long distance journeys. Page description: Bird Migration 2, When do birds migrate and How do they know where they are going
	Parental Care URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Parental_Care.html ODP description: The young of passerines when first hatched are naked, blind, and helpless and require much care which involves feeding, training and protection from predators. Page description: Parental Care
	The Normal Moulting Process in Birds URL: http://www.parrotpassionsuk.com/Advice/Moulting.htm ODP description: Talk given by Avian Vet A. K. Jones to a conference of the Association of Avian Veterinarians in August 1998. Page title: Moulting
	Vocal Dialects URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Vocal_Dialects.html ODP description: Article describing how the songs of many avian species show geographic variation. Page description: Vocal Dialects
	Mechanics of Respiration in Birds URL: http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/Curriculum/VM8054/Labs/Lab26/Notes/birdresp.htm ODP description: Notes and diagrams explaining how birds ventilate their lungs. Page title: Note: Respiration
	The Mystery of Migration URL: http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/birds/migration.htm ODP description: Article that tries to answer the question of how and why birds migrate. Page title: the mystery of bird migration: why and how?
	Development and Uses of Avian Skeleton Collections URL: http://www.boc-online.org/PDF/vol124/Storrs%20Olson.pdf ODP description: Skeletons are essential for the identification of fossils, bones from archaeological sites and food items taken by predators as well as histological and physiological studies.
	Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center URL: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/ ODP description: Ecological and land-management research, education, conservation policy, data on migration and fact sheets. Page title: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center - National Zoo\| FONZ Page description: Ecological and land-management research, education, conservation policy information on migratory birds, bird migration, and biodiversity in the Neotropics. Brought to you by the National Zoo\| FONZ.
	The Making of an Egg URL: http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/0021.html ODP description: Describes the development of the egg of a bird from the release of a mature ovum to the completed egg with shell being laid. Page title: The Making of an Egg, VME-21-04
	Bird Milk URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Bird_Milk.html ODP description: Article describing how the young of some birds are fed on special secretions from their parents. Page description: Bird Milk
	EcoBirds Behaviour URL: http://birds.ecoport.org/Behaviour/EBbehaviour.htm ODP description: Provides a series of bird articles covering nesting, song, migration and the curious habit of anting.
	Sexual Selection URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Sexual_Selection.html ODP description: Female birds of some species tend to choose as mates those males holding the most desirable territories, but there is little evidence that females preferentially select males with different degrees of ornamentation. Page description: Sexual Selection
	Site Tenacity URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Site_Tenacity.html ODP description: Many birds return to the same nesting site each season. This essay discusses why this should be so. Page description: Site Tenacity
	Raptor Information System URL: http://ris.wr.usgs.gov ODP description: The RIS is a free searchable catalog of over 38,000 references about the biology and management of birds of prey. Page title: Search Page description: this is where a site description needs to go to help search engines rank and index the site
	Avian Reproduction: Clutch Size, Incubation and Hatching URL: http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction2.html ODP description: Notes on clutch size optimization in birds, reproductive success, embryo development, incubation and the hatching process, with links to other similar articles. Page title: Clutch size, incubation & hatching
	Power Napping in Pigeons URL: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/tauben_en.pdf ODP description: Max Planck scientists find evidence that pigeons prevented from taking naps in the afternoon sleep more intensely at night.
	The Structure of Avian Skin and Feathers URL: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~timn/THE%20STRUCTURE%20OF%20AVIAN%20SKIN%20AND%20FEATHERS.doc ODP description: Technical article describing a bird's skin and associated structures, its feathers, beak, claws and spurs.
	Birdnet URL: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ ODP description: Ornithological Council's website with comprehensive data about North American ornithological resources. Page title: BIRDNET: all about Ornithology, the Scientific Study of Birds