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Penguin chick perched on the feet of an adult penguin. Caption: Adults walk with newborns on their feet and under blubber

A bird's nest in the ground with a baby bird, beak open. Caption: There will be winners and losers each year.

Wide shot of a partly cloudy sky with a falcon flying through the air in the distance.

Closeup of a light and dark brown mottled peregrine falcon egg shell.

Map of North and Central America. Different areas of the map are highlighted to indicate the habitat areas and 5 birds are superimposed on the map. The highlighted areas are concentrated in central Mexico, the west coast of the United states, and much of Canada and Alaska. Caption: they changed eye color from yellow to dark.

A small bird perched on a person's hand. It is gay with some brown on the wings. Caption: It's much more olive-gray, duskier gray on the head.

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

A large group of penguins.

A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.

Man wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap sits next to a person who has their back towards us. They sit in an open vehicle in the Serengeti. In the distance is a group of wild animals.

Eggs of Screech owl, Turkey vulture, Audubon's Caracara, Kingfisher, Common Murree, Yellow Billed. Caption: Stoddard Et Al. Science 20 17.

Man in suit and bowtie with a blackboard behind him. Blackboard shows two sets of birds in cages, one with lights, one without. Caption: This pioneering experiment would make Rowan famous.

Bird with white belly, dark back and wings perched on a branch in a thicket. Caption: People are more like birds than we thought.

Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.

White bird with gray speckles nesting on the ground. Caption: they check nests, count eggs, and keep records

Black and white photo of a bird with wings extended, perched on a branch. University of Montana Flight Laboratory. Caption: the mechanics of their wing and leg movements.

Person holding a duckling. Caption: So we study how Mom's actions effect these little guys.

Large grey bird perched on the edge of a cage door. Caption: (male narrator) This is Griffin, an African grey parrot.

Raptors. Diagram of a raptor showing keen eyes, curved beak, talons, and a taste for prey. Caption: Raptors migrate south during the winter months

Bird perched in a tree. Caption: That would be evidence of habitat adaptation.

Closeup of a bird on a branch. The bird has a light-colored body and a dark head. Caption: where they're evolving right before our eyes,