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Bird Boom: Tweeting the Old Fashioned Way

August 13, 2009

James Ballance curator of birds, Zoo Atlanta

Zoo Atlanta Curator of Birds James Balance discusses the zoo's avian baby boom during a 2009 Discovery Talk. Tweeting of the old-fashioned kind, not the new media sort, is big at Zoo Atlanta, where four bird species have become parents in August. The new chicks in town are two kori bustards, at least seven Chilean flamingos, two Gambel's quail and one Palawan peacock pheasant.

Topics: Science & Nature

Tags: Animals & Insects | Chilean flamingos | Gambel's quail | kori bustards | Palawan peacock pheasant | Science | Nature & Environment | Biology | Environment | Habitat

Presented By PBA and Zoo Atlanta:

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