10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S., Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. sports championships ).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Specifically, birds that live year-round in tropical regions, especially those which spend most of their days in dense forests, tend to have shorter, rounder wings, whereas birds that migrate long distance to and from more temperate climates or favor oceanic islands often bear longer, pointier wings.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
bearing some orange feathers? (As New research in The Auk: Ornithological Advances appears to have zeroed in on the culprit. What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. As in the photo above, courtesy of C.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2020
The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea. The material is meticulously documented with citations of monographs by Clifford and Dawn Frith and Bruce Beehler plus additional research papers and materials.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2015
Recent research published in The Auk suggests that these chicks fledge early just so they can get their own grub. Along the way, they braved sleepless nights and sleeping bears.) Evolution often helps ingeniously solve puzzles, and more research is perhaps in order to see if birds from other species follow similar patterns.
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