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Ancient Seabird Bones Indicate Human Impact on Ocean Food Chain

Aries Munandi wrote 4 days ago: A Hawaiian Petrel in flight. (PHOTO: JIM DENNY/MSU) Bones of an endangered species, the Hawaiian Pet … more →

Tags: General, Birds, Endangered Species, Hawaiian petrel, Nature

Can This Rare Songbird Be Lured Away From Risky Neighborhoods?

Aries Munandi wrote 4 days ago: Streaked horned lark | Credit US Fish and Wildlife Service A songbird called the streaked horned lar … more →

Tags: General, Songbirds, Birds, Nature

Birds Built for Speed

Aries Munandi wrote 1 week ago: Image: Mdf/Wikipedia With their short wings relative to body size, hummingbirds are built for hoveri … more →

Tags: General, Birds, Hummingbird

Great Tits Can Handle Climate Change: Songbirds More Resilient Than Expected

Aries Munandi wrote 2 weeks ago: Songbirds are more resilient than we thought. New research reveals that a bird called the great tit … more →

Tags: General, great tit, song birds

Bird Navigation – Great Balls of Iron

Aries Munandi wrote 2 weeks ago: cells from the inner ear of pigeons stained with a chemical that turns iron bright blue in color Eve … more →

Tags: General, Pigeon, birds migration, iron balls

Blue Tits Provide Insight Into Climate Change, Bird Study Shows

Aries Munandi wrote 1 month ago: Blue Tit. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Lincoln) Researchers believe that the size of bir … more →

Tags: General, Research, climate change, blue-tits

Why female birds cheat on their partners

Aries Munandi wrote 1 month ago: Washington: Female birds may be socially connected to one male for its entire life, but they are not … more →

Tags: General, Behaviour, Female Birds

Male Birds Like Nice Nests1 comment

Aries Munandi wrote 1 month ago: Blue tit on a feeder When female blue tits make nests fancy, their mates are more active parents. On … more →

Tags: General, Behaviour, blue-tits, Reference, Research

Have Swallows Evolved To Avoid Traffic

Sandy Steinman wrote 1 month ago: The journal Nature reported that Cliff Swallow may be evolving in ways to avoid becoming the victims … more →

Tags: Birds, Cliff Swallows, Birds and Traffic Deaths

Volunteers Needed For Bird-Building Collision Research2 comments

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Tags: calgary birds, bird calgary blog, bird research, Citizen Science

UEA research reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: Around half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years accordin … more →

Tags: General, Research, University of East Anglia

Feeding the birds is more popular than ever

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: More people are putting food out for garden birds in the UK than ever before according to new resear … more →

Tags: General, Research, rspb

Qatar’s efforts lift hopes for rare bird

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: One of the two sub-adult male Bulwer’s pheasant chicks born at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation. RIGHT … more →

Tags: General, Rare Bird, Conservation, Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation

Nest-cam offers views of endangered California birds

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: An endangered snowy plover at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard. (Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times) It’s … more →

Tags: General, News, Research, Conservation

‘Unnatural diet’, ‘severe cold’ caused birds’ death in Sukhna

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: The ‘unnatural diet’ and ‘severe cold conditions’ in Chandigarh have proved fatal for the migratory … more →

Tags: General, News, Bird Migration, migratory birds, Sukha lake

Who’s a clever boy then? Why cockatoos are no bird brains

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: Who’s a clever boy then? Cockatoos display as much self-discipline as a child of four when it … more →

Tags: General, Research, Parrot, Cockatoos, goffin's cockatoo, Royal Society Journal Biology Letters

Environmental change impacts on migratory shorebirds differ for males and females

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: Extensive shell fishing and sewerage discharge in river estuaries could have serious consequences fo … more →

Tags: General, Research, Environmental, migratory birds, University of East Anglia, Icelandic black-tailed godwits, sexes

Good news on the bird population—but not for everyone

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: Wood pigeons, once found shyly cooing in forests, have boldly moved into cities and suburbs BRITISH … more →

Tags: General, Sparrows, Research, bird watchers, migratory birds, British, British Trust for Ornithology

How birds of different feathers flock together

Aries Munandi wrote 2 months ago: Credit: Shutterstock New research from the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge reveals for the firs … more →

Tags: General, Research, Cambridge Jackdaw Project, University of Exeter, different feathers flock together


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