Some Noteworthy Birds

Noteworthy New Titles

Birds and Some Human Diseases

adult plumage. One would certainly expect that at least half of the individuals of an average flock in September and October would be birds of the year, and since all were in adult plumage, the postjuvenal molt must have been complete by that time for the particular flock observed. It therefore appears to me that the individual under consideration, No. 55-127606, is a bird from a rare second br...

Noteworthy professional news.

When a 359-g baby girl was born at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 1994, the parents wondered whether other infants that small had survived in other hospitals. Their question led to an attempt to collect reports of survivors with birth weights of less than 400 g from the medical literature and lay media and the Tiniest Babies Registry was born. To date, the registry has collecte...

A Noteworthy Case for Diagnosis

A Noteworthy Case for Diagnosis