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Beak disorder baffles scientists
Brian Wallace / Juneau Empire
Bird brain buster: Biologists don't understand why populations of year-round Alaska birds have unusually high rates of beak deformities. University of Alaska Southeast graduate student Caroline Van Hemert said the state's chickadees, the longest-studied species, have a 10 percent rate of deformity. A proportion is about ½ perce
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