Bird Identity Links

Four, Three, Two, One . . . Pterosaurs Have Lift Off (Science Daily)

Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly -- and wrongly -- lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike in many ways, such as using only two legs to take flight.

Ancient Flying Reptiles Used Four Legs to Launch (SpaceRef)

Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly -- and wrongly -- lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs.

Tisdale RCMP solve chicken-chucker case (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

The world may never know the identity of Tisdale's now-infamous chicken-chucker.

Swans felled by mistaken identity, poachers (Skagit Valley Herald)

FIR ISLAND — Six protected swans, four trumpeter and two tundra, have been killed on Fir Island over the past seven weeks — possibly the most killed in recent years. At least one…

Douglas Dispatch (The Daily Dispatch)

The annual celebration of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and other wintering birds is coming soon. This is your opportunity to learn more about the birds and other natural history subjects as well as past and present human life in the Sulphur Springs Valley.