10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. I find fascinating the fact that Egyptian Vultures , New Caledonian Crows and Woodpecker Finches learned to use a tool with tremendous success. Among Woodpecker Finches, young birds quickly learn to use tools by watching how adult birds do it. Woodpecker Finch using a tool.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2024
The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs. Armistead and Brian L.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Their potential role as tools used during the courtship displays of Broad-billed Rollers is also discussed.” If you were an antique Roman reading this blog post, what you see below would not be a Brown-hooded Kingfisher but a white-bellied one ( albiventris ). .”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2011
Besides that, I teach environmental ethics courses for biology students at the university and currently I am working also on an exciting project of producing a simulation game called ecosim (primarily an education tool for students) in which the player has to fulfil conservation tasks in an interactive ecosystem (e.g.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. Often, as I have been investigating the contents of a nest by making a small hole in the side, the parent birds have come right to the nest, where they immediately begin to repair the damage even before my departure!”.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Indeed, given the great length of time over which Aves has existed in its more or less modern form, it is quite possible that the original primordial mechanism of finding one’s way, or the mechanism for knowing when it is time to leave, or other migration-related tools of the trade, were lost in some but not all lineages.
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