Hello Ross,
As a non academic I must agree with Stephen. I've just checked up on
the articles you mentioned.
They are interesting, newsy and very generalist. i make no claim to
knowing lots but i didn't find anything there I wouldn't expect to
find in other sources or anything i haven't read before. Some very
similar stories have even been previously reported in papers like The
Australian. True, not in as great a detail nor with such excellent
pictures but still reported.
AFO and Emu publish the bits that the popular press ignores or just
doesn't find.
Some of the articles are on research and conservation projects but
don't tell us much or anything new about the bird's behaviour.
This is not to belittle the authors, many of whom I greatly respect,
but the nature of the beast (Wingspan) is aimed at being a popular
magazine rather than one adding small bits on NEW information to the
small mountain of knowledge we have on many birds.
Over the years I have written to a number of Wingspan authors asking
them to include a bit more meant in their stew but with little result.
Peter
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