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Most Female Raptors Are Bigger and Stronger Than Males, but Why?
March 12, 2018 —
Despite many scientific studies, there's still no consensus on why this disparity exists in birds of prey.
Katie Fallon is the author of Vulture: The Private Life on an Unloved Bird and other books. She's a founder of the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia and currently serves as president of the Mountaineer Chapter of National Audubon. Her first word was “bird.”