Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds(usbirdhistory.com)

144 points by Morizero 2 years ago | 90 comments

The largest eagle hunted unlike any other bird of prey (2021)(nhm.ac.uk)

45 points by EndXA 13 days ago | 2 comments

Natural History Museum news article from 2021 on research showing the extinct Haast's eagle of New Zealand hunted moa in a way unlike any other bird of prey.

Pfeilstorch(en.wikipedia.org)

188 points by georgecmu 3 years ago | 46 comments

Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found(nhm.ac.uk)

82 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans(manchester.ac.uk)

33 points by gnufx 1 year ago | 20 comments

Emu War(en.wikipedia.org)

9 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 2 comments

A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)

478 points by geox 3 years ago | 392 comments

Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

Crows are even smarter than we thought(nautil.us)

443 points by dnetesn 2 years ago | 236 comments

Nautilus article by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on new evidence that crows and other corvids have surprising mental abilities.

Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling(economist.com)

406 points by livueta 2 years ago | 328 comments

Economist science article reporting that wind turbines harm bird populations less than oil-and-gas drilling, contrary to wind farm opponents' fears.