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Alaska’s Absent Snowy Owls
The only reliable snowy owl breeding site in the United States has a conspicuous shortage of owls.
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Amazonian birds are shrinking in response to climate change, study shows
The canary in the coal mine for how climate change is affecting the treasure trove of biodiversity in the Amazon is … also a bird. Dozens of them, in fact, according to a new study that shows the changing climate is actually shrinking their bodies and elongating their wings. “Our findings show that man-made climate […]
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The climate crisis is messing with birds' body shapes
Researchers studying 15,000 birds in the Amazon rainforest found that nearly all of the birds' bodies have become lighter since the 1980s, losing on average about 2% of their body weight every decade.
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Millions of Birds have Vanished Since 1980
Researchers say more than 600 million birds have disappeared across Europe in just the past 40 years. Here’s why.
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Critically Endangered Bird Believed Dead Spotted Alive in Hawaiian Islands
A golden, thick-billed bird thought to have died more than 1.5 years ago was seen alive on the slopes of a Maui volcano. The discovery is giving researchers hope for the critically endangered species. The Kiwikiu, or Maui parrotbill, is recognized as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and is endemic to the island.
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Birds Have a Mysterious 'Quantum Sense'. Scientists Have Now Seen It in Action
Seeing our world through the eyes of a migratory bird would be a rather spooky experience. Something about their visual system allows them to 'see' our planet's magnetic field.
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US to declare ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more species extinct
Factors behind disappearances include too much development, water pollution, logging and competition from invasive species
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Rwandan conservationist helps to save hundreds of cranes
The Umusambi Village has rescued more than 200 cranes from captivity over the years, helping to boost the population of the endangered birds to 881 from 487 just four years ago.
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Bird species increased in urban areas during human lockdowns for the pandemic
When COVID-19 restrictions forced you indoors, it brought birds back to North America, new research shows. Across the United States and Canada, birders documented an 80% increase among most of the 82 species they recorded since the start of pandemic restrictions last year.
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A mysterious illness killing America's songbirds has scientists stumped
One day in late May, a stranger contacted Erica Miller about a sick bird. For a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator, that isn't unusual. She's rescued 1,794 animals so far this year, many of them birds, and mostly thanks to tips from people who come across sick or injured animals. This was different.
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Some birds learn to recognize calls while still in their eggs
Over a decade ago, behavioral ecologist Diane Colombelli-Négrel was wiring superb fairy wrens’ nests to record the birds’ sounds when she noticed something odd. Mother fairy wrens sang while incubating their eggs, even though it would have made more sense to keep quiet to avoid attracting predators.
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Scientists have found a duck that can imitate speech but it can only say 'you bloody fool'
Scientists say that the recordings are evidence that musk ducks are like parrots in that they are vocal language learners.
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Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
We have forgotten the primeval forests and expansive grasslands where wildlife thrived, an ecological amnesia. We must work to remember, regenerate, and restore
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On the hunt for the barking owl with sound recorders, head torches and a thermal camera
Candice Larkin is trying to track down the elusive barking owl, whose calls are often confused with the woofs of a dog, and even the screams of a human.
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‘We are going to lose these birds’: the quiet fight to save the golden-shouldered parrot
In 1922, Cyril Jerrard captured the first and only photographs of the paradise parrot, the only Australian bird to be officially declared extinct since European colonisation. Jerrard was well aware he was looking at one of the last of its kind: “The one undisguisable fact [is] that the advent of the white man has spelled destruction to one of the loveliest of the native birds of this country,” he wrote in 1924.
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Crafty cockatoos master dumpster diving and teach each other
A few years ago, a Sydney scientist noticed a sulfur-crested cockatoo opening his trash bin. Not every resident would be thrilled, but ornithologist Richard Major was impressed by the ingenuity.
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Why it matters that climate change is shrinking birds
Bird populations have declined so drastically that this year, there are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than there were in 1970.
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Horned Screamers Loud
These are a first for me and I bet for you as well.
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Hundreds of birds are appearing disoriented and then dying, and experts don't know why
Hundreds of birds across the eastern United States have been dying from a mysterious illness, and wildlife experts aren't sure what is causing it. In late May, The Washington Post reported birds in the Washington D.C. area were starting to die. Since then, six states – Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia – have reported similar instances.
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A generation of seabirds was wiped out by a drone at a reserve. Now, scientists fear for their future
Eggs littered the sand, but there was no sign of life around or in them.
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