10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2014
Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month when bird researchers from several nations announced that the species formerly known as Spotted Wren-Babbler ( Spelaeornis formosus ) — a tiny, secretive bird of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas to southeast China — is not a Spelaeornis wren-babbler at all.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2011
The honeycreepers of Hawaii now have a family tree, with researchers from the Smithsonian having used DNA to map the entire family. Good news for an endangered family of birds!
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10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2014
So while you’re waiting for that or for low tide, here are a few reads and bits of news on bird taxonomy and systematics that have caught my eye over the past few weeks. A new genus for the American Tree Sparrow. The proposal above is one of many that will emerge from a major new paper by Klicka et al.,
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. This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. sports championships ).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2015
… since this is a family website, I’m not sure I can finish that sentence. (Is In this study, the males who slept in weren’t slackers—the researchers manipulated their circadian rhythms with melatonin implants. News circadian rhythm Great Tits mating Is “OPP” PG-13?) Suffice it to say, the answer in this case isn’t “worm.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2020
It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. 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. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. m, individuals feeding on bread were only 0.25
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