Two Eastern Meadowlarks from the Greater Chicago area, collected/salvaged 104 years apart. The specimen on the left (from 1907) is coated in atmospheric black carbon, highlighting a time in our recent past when coal smoke engulfed industrial cities in the US.

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dude on the right looks bigger. Are they bigger now?

I didn't read the whole white paper but you are right. It does seem that modern birds (assumed healthier) are bigger.

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I didn't read the whole white paper but you are right. It does seem that modern birds (assumed healthier) are bigger.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1710239114