Study shows alarming drop in Kenyan vultures
BirLife International (on a Biological Conservation paper)
Five New eBird Animated Occurrence Maps
eBird
Birds and killer windows: Interview with Dr. Dan Klem
UrbanBirdscapes (blog)
Blue tits with territories near streetlights mate better.
The Washington Post
Mirrorlike Feathers Give Bird of Paradise Its Shine
LiveScience
On the discovery rate of new bird species (an interesting blog post)
Biological Ramblings
NextEra Energy Res. plans to replace 2,400 turbines and shut down some others at the infamous Altamont Pass wind farm.
Los Angeles Times
Giant Storks May Have Fed On Real Hobbits
LiveScience
Humans Helped Egyptian Vultures Colonize the Canary Islands
ScienceDaily (on a BMC Evol. Biol. paper)
Soaring Is Better Than Flapping for Birds Big and Small
AVoCet: a global database of well-documented, downloadable bird sounds
AVoCet
Electrocution of Birds and Collision With Power Lines: Solutions to a Global Problem
ScienceDaily
How birds see magnetic fields – an interview with Thorsten Ritz
DISCOVER
Common cuckoos have evolved host specialisation but not local adaptation
BBC Earth News (J Evol Biol paper)
miércoles, 1 de junio de 2011
November 2010
75% British barn owls bred in man-made nest boxes.
BBC EarthNews
Engineer Provides New Insight Into Pterodactyl Flight: they soared using thermally driven air.
ScienceDaily
DNA uncovers a new parrot species... and it is already endangered.
ScienceDaily
Leading Canadian conservation groups say wind farm doesn’t belong in Important Bird Area
BirdLife International
Some amazing shots (enjoy!)
NewScientist
How Hummingbirds Fight the Wind: Robotic Wing May Reveal Answer
ScienceDaily
Physicists say bird song could be less complex than it seems (or... if you think you understand something build it)
ScienceDaily
Across the Southeast of USA, volunteer banders study apparent shifts in the cold-weather ranges of several hummingbird species.
National Wildlife
Colouring the temperature of a starlings' roost.
BBC EarthNews
The 'bird people' of St Kilda (Interesting article and two videos on how this people made a living from birds)
BBC EarthNews
Young light-bellied Brent geese learn their migratory destinations from parents
ScienceDaily
BOU Small Research Grants. Awards of up to £2000 per project aimed at supporting small projects outright and to part-fund medium-sized research programmes. (DEADLINE December 31, 2010)
BirdGrantsBlog
Sparrowhawks behind sparrows decline in UK.
MailOnline (on this Auk paper)
Prehistoric Winged Reptiles 'Pole-Vaulted' Into Flight
ScienceDaily
Alaskan Birds with Beak Deformities
A DC Birding Blog (on a USGS new)
Cyprus: Two MILLION birds caught illegally
10,000Birds (on a BirdLife Cyprus new)
Feather-Loss Disorder in African and Magellanic Penguins
Conservation Magazine (on a Waterbirds paper)
European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 (amazing Kingfisher capture)
BBC EartNews
Polar bears can't eat geese into extinction, but predating on gesse eggs may help bears to survive
ScienceDaily (on an Oikos paper)
Altitudinal moult migration in hummingbirds
Conservation Magazine (on a J Trop Ecol paper)
Bird-mimics steal meerkats' food
BBC EarthNews (on a Proceedings of the Royal Society B paper)
How ostriches run faster than us
BBC News
Why power lines 'invisible' to bustards cranes and storks?
BBC News
Golden eagles score key victory in battle with wind farm firms in Scotland
NEWS.scotsman.com
A Peregrine's (Nocturnal?) Diet
A DC Birding Blog
Study launched to assess the impact of wind farms on golden eagles.
ScienceDaily
Cosmetic uropygial gland in flamingos.
ScienceDaily (on a Beh Ecol Sociobiol paper)
October 2010
Clever New Caledonian crows go to parents' tool school
BBC EarthNews
Database Matches Plants to Birds
A DC Birding Blog
Bird brains show chain reactions govern timing of complex tasks.
ScienceDaily (on a Nature paper)
Philippines May Have More Unique Bird Species Than Thought
ScienceDaily(on a Biological Conservation paper)
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
BBC News
Penguins flirt with homosexuality
BBC EarthNews (on an Ethology paper)
Sparrows identify 'troublemakers' from innocent birds
BBC EarthNews (on an Anim Beh paper)
Kinship affects investment by helpers in long-tailed tits
The Rattling Crow Blog (on a Proc R Soc London paper)
Red parrot feathers resist bacterial degradation
Punctuated equilibria
Cat bell collars could halve native bird deaths
stuff.co.nz
Is Anxiety Contagious? Scientists Study Owls and Voles to Find out
ScienceDaily (on a Beh Brain Res and Neurosc Biobehav Rev paper)
Wind turbines wrong colour for wildlife
BBC Earth News
A potential link between metabolism and animal personalites.
ScienceDaily (on a Trends Ecol Evol paper)
Geolocators show red knots' flights extraordinary
Philly.com
Spanish petrels avoid oil spill damage from Prestige tanker
BBC Earth News (on a Marine Pollution Bulletin paper)
Bioenergy Choices Could Dramatically Change Midwest, US, Bird Diversity
ScienceDaily (on a PNAS paper)
Placing the passenger pigeon into the family tree of pigeons and doves.
ScienceDaily
Vultures Use Face Flushing Technique for Instant Status Updates
ScienceDaily
Climate risks greater for long distance migratory birds.
BBC News (Proc R Soc London paper)
Using melanosomes to infer the unusual color of a fossil penguin.
Punctuated Equlibrium blog (on a Science paper)
A personal summary about the 143rd meeting of the Deutschen Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (on recent advances in bird migration)
Wesley Hochachka for Round Robin
A preliminary analysis of banding data on the migration of the irruptive Pine Siskins across the United States
Project FeederWatch (The Cornell Lab)
Barred plumage in birds: camouflage and sexual communication
ScienceDaily (on a J Evol Biol paper)
September 2010
Ancient terror bird stabbed its prey to death
NewScientist
Catastrophic forest fire in Madeira threatens Europe’s rarest seabird
BirdLife International
Parasite threatens many of Britain's best-loved birds
Greg Laden's Blog (on a PLoS ONE paper)
Mice can learn to detect faces infected with avian flu
ScienceDaily
Avian Influenza Virus May Persist on Feathers Fallen from Domestic Ducks
ScienceDaily
A new blog provides information on GRANTS for ornithological research projects
Bird Grants
Up to 80% of the Spilled Oil Remains in the Gulf
A DC Birding Blog
eBird receive a million bird observations monthly. Cornell Lab and Audubon are working together to use this information to show bird distribution maps as never seen before.
Round Robin (The Cornell Blog of Ornithology)
Increased Destruction of Bird Populations Are Predicted With Rise in Global Temperatures
ScienceDaily
Why many bird species have totally dependent offspring?
Oxford University
On how budgerigars use male "calls" (not "songs") to choose mate.
ScienceDaily
Audio on crossbill migration by Pim Edelaar (2yr old but still interesting)
BBC Radio
Amazing Natural History blog post: bivalves vs. birds.
Tetrapod Zoologuy
A report on cannon netting shorebirds
Biological Ramblings
Orcas regularly feed on penguins in Antarctica
BBC Earth News
Why do Great tinamous Tinamus major lay conspicuous eggs on the ground? An interesting idea
NewScientist
August 2010
Ancient terror bird stabbed its prey to death
NewScientist
Catastrophic forest fire in Madeira threatens Europe’s rarest seabird
BirdLife International
Parasite threatens many of Britain's best-loved birds
Greg Laden's Blog (on a PLoS ONE paper)
Mice can learn to detect faces infected with avian flu
ScienceDaily
Avian Influenza Virus May Persist on Feathers Fallen from Domestic Ducks
ScienceDaily
A new blog provides information on GRANTS for ornithological research projects
Bird Grants
Up to 80% of the Spilled Oil Remains in the Gulf
A DC Birding Blog
eBird receive a million bird observations monthly. Cornell Lab and Audubon are working together to use this information to show bird distribution maps as never seen before.
Round Robin (The Cornell Blog of Ornithology)
Increased Destruction of Bird Populations Are Predicted With Rise in Global Temperatures
ScienceDaily
Why many bird species have totally dependent offspring?
Oxford University
On how budgerigars use male "calls" (not "songs") to choose mate.
ScienceDaily
Audio on crossbill migration by Pim Edelaar (2yr old but still interesting)
BBC Radio
Amazing Natural History blog post: bivalves vs. birds.
Tetrapod Zoologuy
A report on cannon netting shorebirds
Biological Ramblings
Orcas regularly feed on penguins in Antarctica
BBC Earth News
Why do Great tinamous Tinamus major lay conspicuous eggs on the ground? An interesting idea
NewScientist
July 2010
Three million years ago North and South America joined, leading to new migration routes and explaining species diversity today.
ScienceDaily
Senescence and dominance in roosters
ScienceDaily
On the polymorphism of Oystercatcher bills
Tetrapod Zoologist (Blog)
How do Oystercatchers learn how to forage and keep alive
Greg Laden's Blog
Tags reveal puffin food 'hotspot'
BBC News
An interesting article by Corina Logan (PhD student) on corvid social behaviour
NewScientist
I Wouldn't Mate With You If You Were the Last Finch on Earth? (blog post on a PLoS ONE paper)
Mike the Mad Biologist (Blog)
Egyptian vultures use twigs to gather wool for their nests
NewScientist
Avian empathy
Living the Scientific Life (Blog)
Sensitive males: inbreeding depression in an endangered bird
ScienceDaily
Ostrich feathers useful for Ostrich (and dinosaur) bipedal locomotion
ScienceDaily
Effect of Fire on Birds Evaluated in the Pyrenees
ScienceDaily
In Zebra finches, muscles controlling male vocal organs are crucial to sing over a wide range of frequencies; females only make short, lower-frequency calls.
ScienceDaily
Concern over plans to downgrade Indian national park
BBC News
Citizen Science: Birders Contribute Valuable Data on Invasive Plant Species (Ecological Applications paper)
ScienceDaily
June 2010
The uropygial gland and the spread of avian influence viruses
ScienceDaily
Builders urged to allow for swift nests
BBC News
The Catalan Journal of Ornithology announces its annual prize to the best 2009 paper.
Institut Català d'Ornitologia
Caring for Caspian Tern chicks (slideshow)
Round Robin
Pleasing to the Eye: Even Brooding Female Birds Are Sensitive to Visual Stimulation
ScienceDaily
Evolution of Bird Bills: Birds Reduce Their 'Heating Bills' in Cold Climates
ScienceDaily
Hiking quietly benefits birds... and birders
Conservation Maven
Harmful Bacteria Carried by Pigeons
ScienceDaily
Living Fast and Dangerously: Hormones Influence the 'Pace of Life' of Songbirds
ScienceDaily
Bright sexy birds are poor fliers (Naturwissenschaften paper)
BBC EarthNews
How endangered are the Gulf's brown pelicans?
NewScientist
Wetland Aliens Cause Bird Extinction
ScienceDaily
The neuroscience of birdsong (an interesting blog post)
NeuroKüz
86 turbines of a wind farm in Ontario killed 602 birds and 1,270 bats between July and December 2009
The Globe and Mail
Amazing bird photo with a story – A new section of "Birdlife Community" worth following
Birdlife International
Oldest prehistoric pelican also had big beak
BBC News
Great bustards "on the rise" in Britain
RSPB (via Surfbirds)
Bar-Tailed Godwit Sets Record for Long-Distance Non-Stop Flight
ScienceDaily (PLoS Biology paper)
Invasions linked to more people and more money
ScienceDaily (PNAS paper)
May 2010
American crows declined more severely in urban than rural areas after West Nile virus reached the northeastern US
Conservation Magazine
Oiled bird photos. "Enjoy!"
The Big Picture
Bee stripes may not keep birds away
BBC News
Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data
ScienceDaily (PLoS Biology paper)
New remote tools for bird habitat selection research
NASA
Do Ravens Show Consolation?
PLoS ONE paper
Bird feeding: concerns raised over benefit to UK birds
BBC Earth News
Prehistoric Birds Were Poor Flyers, Research Shows
ScienceDaily
Coastal Birds Carry Toxic Ocean Metals Inland
ScienceDaily
Personality of Geese Determines Their Foraging Behaviour (Ecology Letters paper)
ScienceDaily
A webcam inside a Puffin burrow (nest) in Shetlands.
RSPB
Oil Spill: Worse Than Government or BP Can Handle
A DC Birding blog
Birds and Mammals Share a Common Brain Circuit for Learning (Journal of Neuroscience paper)
ScienceDaily
Even Small Patches of Urban Woods Are Valuable for Migrating Birds
ScienceDaily
‘Vulture restaurants’ may be excluding smaller scavengers
Conservation Magazine
Costs and Benefits of Testosterone in Birds (American Naturalist paper)
ScienceDaily
How Far Can a Bird Fly Nonstop During Migration? (PLoS Biology paper)
A DC Birding Blog
X-Rays Reveal Chemical Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs
ScienceDaily
Cages and Emetics Rescue Wading Birds: Decoy Eggs Injected With a Drug to Induce Vomiting in Predators
SinceDaily
Stable isotopes to study the potential impact of Bald eagle reintroduction (a PNAS paper)
The New York Times
Magpie Parents Seem to Induce Mortality of 'Unwanted' Chicks
ScienceDaily
Fragmented Forests Result in More Snakes, Fewer Birds
ScienceDaily
Stabilizing selection on testosterone production. An American Naturalist paper.
ScienceDaily
Cranes set to return to skies after 400-year absence
BBC News
How egg spotting birds catch out cuckoos (PHOTO GALLERY)
BBC Earth News
Yesterday the oil slick from the sunken oil drilling rig reached coastal wetlands
A DC Birding Blog
Red kite recovery in north Scotland put in jeopardy by illegal killing
Surfbirds News (RSPB)
Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools (see video here)
BBC News
High-speed video has revealed for the first time how male common snipes generate their distinctive drumming mating calls. (see video in this link)
BBC News
April 2010
Some amazing bird photos... ENJOY!
WeLoveBirds.org
Scientists Get Bird's-Eye View of How Cuckoos Fool Their Hosts
ScienceDaily (on a PNAS paper)
Global Warming May Be Causing Evolutionary Changes in Bird Migration
ScienceDaily
Volcano Causing Problems for Wildlife?
A DC Birding Blog
On the stability (or not) of bird songs across decades
The New York Times (on a Biology Letters paper)
Webcams Provide a Window on Bird Nests
A DC Birding Blog
Free bird surveys now available for every UK farmer
Surfbirds News (RSPB)
South Atlantic becomes more seabird-friendly
BirdLife International
Pigeon 'Backpacks' Track Flock Voting
ScienceDaily
Bonelli’s Eagle: Improving the Conservation of an Endangered Species Across Europe
ScienceDaily
A Possible Way for Wild Birds to Spread Influenza
A DC Birdign Blog
Wildlife Still Exposed to Exxon Valdez Oil 20 Years After Disaster
ScienceDaily
A blue White Stork (photo)
Noticias de Navarra
What do Great Tits Reveal about the Genetics of Personality?
Living the Scientific Live (Blog)
A Well-Defended Territory Is What Some Female Hummingbirds Find Most Attractive in a Mate
ScienceDaily
UV reveals fossil feathers
Living the Scientific Life
Measuring passerine fever with transmitters
ScienceDaily
Eating Like a Bird Helps Forests Grow
ScienceDaily
Computer system tracks penguins by their chest markings
Conservation Magazine
White Stork wait for FIFA World Cup (or... Dozens of White storks fail to migrate and instead bred at South Africa)
Surfbirds
Small garden birds hit by cold weather.
BBC News
Songbird Genome Sings of the Communicating Brain
ScienceDaily
How Ducks Host Influenza Unharmed: Could Findings Shield Humans from Bird Flu Viruses?
ScienceDaily
Superpredation patterns in four large European raptors (see some pictures here)
BBC Earth News
(see original Population Ecology paper here)
March 2010
New Bird Fossil Hints at More Undiscovered Chinese Treasures
ScienceDaily
Warmer Summers Could Create Challenges for Nesting Arctic Seabirds
ScienceDaily
Fruit antioxidants may be the reason of food selection
ScienceDaily
Wandering Albatross: Is Foraging Efficiency a Key Parameter in Aging?
ScienceDaily
Bird Bones May Be Hollow, but They Are Also Heavy
ScienceDaily
Female birds find males with glossy feathers more sexy
BBC EarthNews
Fishing Discard Ban Could Damage Sea Bird Success, Scientists Warn
ScienceDaily
Are big brains better for long trips?
NeuroDojo Blog
The Young, the Weak and the Sick: Evidence of Natural Selection by Predation
PLoS ONE
Songbirds Provide Insight Into Speech Production
ScienceDaily
High Arctic Species Doing Poorly
A BC Birding Blog
See here photos by BBC on some of the declining species.
Proposed Legislation Would Prevent Millions of Bird Deaths due to Collision with Windows
Surfbird News
Swift nesting sites 'hit by home improvements'
BBC News
Rare white puffin visits its black cousins off the Isles of Scilly
TimesOnline
The Message Is in the Egg: Before they've hatched, canary chicks receive clues about what life will be like for them outside the egg
About.com
'State of the birds 2010' highlights threats to migrants
BirdLife International
To the Antarctic or Brazil for New Feathers: Thin-Billed Prions Select Their Moulting Grounds Individually
ScienceDaily
Climate change makes birds smaller in North America
BBC EarthNews
First Condor Nest in 100 Years Appears at Pinnacles National Monument
Laist
Automating bird surveys with remote sensors
Conservation Maven
A seabird (Vanuatu Petrel) not seen at sea for more than 80 years, and rediscovered last year, has finally been photographed.
Birdwatch
Voluntary use of copper ammunition by hunters reduce blood lead levels in ravens.
Center of Biological Diversity
Mystery of 75 starlings falling from the sky
BBC News
Scientists Solve Puzzle of Chickens That Are Half Male and Half Female: "cell sex", not hormones, produce sexual traits of a given sex
Science Daily
DNA from the largest bird ever sequenced from fossil eggshells
Not Exactly Rocket Science (Blog)
BirdNote Radio. Radio shows about birds, the environment, and more.... periodistic style with outstanding scientific advisors such as Gordon Orians.
(listen an example here)
Biologging technologies: new tools for conservation
ScienceDaily
(Link: a collection of papers from a Biologging conference published in Endangered Species Research)
How that cork in your wine bottle helps forests and biodiversity
Mongabay.com
Songbird study may help vocal learning in humans
Explaining Science to the Public (Blog)
Simple Math Explains Dramatic Beak Shape Variation in Darwin's Finches
Science Daily
Mosquitoes -- Not Birds -- May Have Carried West Nile Virus Across U.S.
Science Daily
Supercharged swifts take flight speed record
BBC Earth News
Interesting video on Pygmy owls in a Porland "urban" park
OPB TV
Dinosaurs Had Wrists Like Birds
LiveScience
Can birds affect tree growth?
EcoTone
Hungry, Carnivorous Birds with Their Prey (PHOTO slideshow; ENJOY!)
Treehugger
Study links mercury contamination with changes in birdsongs
Conservation Maven
Cape Cod National Seashore planns to poison crows to protect Piping Plovers
Cape Cod Times
3 California condors die of lead poisoning in Arizona, 1st such deaths in 3 years
Los Angeles Times
Roseate tern decline perplexes researchers
Wicked Local Orleans
February 2010
Natural Antioxidants Give Top Barn Swallows a Leg on Competitors
ScienceDaily
Twig structures that the birds build for courtship are surprisingly resilient to bush fires
New Scientist
Meat on a String: A Possible Limit to Corvid Intelligence?
A DC Birding Blog
Scientists Image Brain at Point When Vocal Learning Begins
ScienceDaily
Some good research-photos... ENJOY!
NewScientist
House Finch behavior increases Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis spread
A DC Birding Blog
Iron in the Beaks of Birds
A DC Birding Blog
A study with temporary adhesive radio transmitters show stop-over duration related to fat.
Ravens 'not behind' wader decline
BBC News
UK's rarest farmland bird fights back
Surfbirds News (RSPB)
Citizen science: using birder lists to detect species decline
Conservation Maven
Bird communities as bioindicators of stream degradation
Conservation Maven
A ban on fishing around a colony of threatened penguins in South Africa has brought swift benefits to the beleaguered birds.
Yahoo!News
Why love birds 'dance' to the Sun
BBC News
Seabird movement patterns tied to fishing boat schedules
EcoTone
Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around?
ScienceDaily
3D bird skeletons; a new interactive web
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Plan
A DC Birding Blog
Absurd feathery ornaments: not just sexy, but functional!
SEANET Blog
Great tits: birds with character
EurekAlert!
Positive association between MHC and pathogen diversity
Estación Biológica de Doñana
Geolocators on Cory’s Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) increase the duration of the birds’ trips and decrease their foraging efficiency
Estación Biológica de Doñana
Amazing videos of birds in flight
University of Montana
Birds changing wing shape as possible adaptation to environmental change
Conservation Maven
Phoenix the Red-tailed Hawk Injured From Plane Crash
BirdFreak
Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern Bluebird
A Blog Around the Clock
some amazing bird pictures... ENJOY!
BBC News
Evaluating coastal feeding habitat for marine birds
Conservation Maven
Seabirds' Movement Patterns Tied to What Fishermen Toss Away
ScienceDaily
With Climate Change, Some Birds Are Taking Off for Migration Sooner; Not Reaching Destinations Earlier
ScienceDaily
Birds Follow Their Noses During Migration
ScienceDaily
January 2010
Feathers first arose for colour display and only later they become useful for flight and insulation.
ScienceDaily
(See original Nature paper here)
Ancestors of the African ostrich and the Australasian emu among others became flightless independently, in close association with the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago
ScienceDaily
'Microraptors' Shed Light on Ancient Origin of Bird Flight
ScienceDaily
Identifying minimum patch sizes for breeding success in birds
Conservation Maven
Moonlight Makes Owls More Chatty
PLoS ONE
Pacific dunlins lose weight and fly more as a response to increased threat of predation by falcons.
ScienceDaily
How 40 Endangered Sea Eagles Bring in $3 Million a Year to Small Scottish Island
treehugger
The airflow through alligators' lungs is strikingly bird-like, suggesting that one-way airflow evolved in an ancestor of dinosaurs.
New Scientist
Big Plant-Eating Birds That Dwell With Others on Islands Live Longest
ScienceDaily
Possible New Species Found in Borneo
A DC Birding Blog
Doing It For the Kids: The Evolution of Migration
Living the Scientific Live Blog
(see original Science paper here)
A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild.
ScienceDaily
What Makes Birds Cooperate Against Predators?
A DC Birding Blog
(see original paper here)
Gray Squirrels Not Causing Bird Declines in the Brithis Isles
A DC Birding Blog
'World's Least Known Bird' Discovered Breeding in Afghanistan
ScienceDaily
Where do puffins go in the winter?
EurekAlert!
As in Humans, Sleep Solidifies a Bird's Memories
ScienceDaily
Artic terns migrate as far as thought
LiveScience
Grit can reduce the poisonous effects of ingested lead shot on waterbirds
Estación Biológica de Doñana
(see original paper here)
Global versus Local Bird Conservation Focus
A DC Birding Blog
(read original online-free PLoS ONE paper here)
Birds Fight Alien Parasites: Darwin's Finches Develop Antibodies to Flies, Pox Virus
ScienceDaily
(original online-free PLoS ONE paper here)
Eight New Species Proposed as Endangered
A DC Birding Blog
When do you throw in the towel and concede that a rare species has gone extinct?
Conservation Maven
(see original Biological Conservation paper here)
December 2009
Zoo penguins help Antarctic birds
BBC News
"Nest boxes" for Burrowing Owls
JournOwl
Results Are In From First Antarctica Christmas Bird Count
AudubonMagazine.org
Fewer Migratory Birds in Dutch Woods Due to Climate Change
ScienceDaily
New Warbler Discovered in Laos
ScienceDaily
Poisonous Prehistoric 'Raptor' Discovered in China
ScienceDaily
Cuckholding crows don't necessarily have healthier chicks
Denim and Tweed
Birds Favor Most Promising Offspring
LiveScience
Ventriloquist Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies
ScienceDaily
New issue of the Catalan Journal of Ornithology already online (and free)
Institut Català d'Ornitologia
Sexual selection and avian influenza in Ducks
Estación Biológica de Doñana
Sparrows' Sex Life Offers Clues About Global Warming
Hartford Courant
Birds may expand the range of Lyme disease and its vector tick
EcoTone
Complex life of marsh birds: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors
ScienceDaily
Fungi reveal internal feather structure to the miscroscope
Not Exactly Rocket Science
New Leaf Warbler from Vietnam
A DC Birding Blog
The negative impact of salvage logging on birds
Conservation Maven
Removing Barred Owls to protect Northern Spotted Owls
OregonLive.com
Clues to what birds do on a trans-Sahara trip
The New York Times
(see original Biology Letters paper here
Sexual selection also produces sexy plumages in females
Live Science
(see original Nature paper here)
Tropical birds waited for land crossing between North and South America
ScienceDaily
(see original PNAS paper here)
Another livestock drug endangers vultures
ScienceNews
Foraging associations between treeshrews, drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Island, India
Not Exactly Rocket Science
(see original Biology Letters paper here)
Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne
NewScientist
Climate change and birds
10,000 Birds
Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons
NewScientist.
(see related TREE paper here)
Some birds listen, instead of look, for Mates
ScienceDaily
(see free PLoS ONE paper here)
Iron Curtain kept out alien birds
BBC News
Birds call to warn friends and enemies
e! Science News
Egg membrane thickness increases during development
Estación Biológica de Doñana
(see original Naturwissenschaften paper here)
British birdfeeders split blackcaps into two genetically distinct groups
Not Exactly Rocket Science
(see original Current Biology paper here)
Clever ravens cooperatively hunt
BBC Earth News
Ecologically relevant spatial memory use modulates hippocampal neurogenesis
NeuroDojo
(see original paper here)
A historic paper on Cuckoo behavior
A DC Birding Blog
This is one of the 60 papers now available because of the 350th anniversary of The Royal Society
How hummingbirds get their nectar with tiny ‘straws’
The New York Times
200,000 seabirds killed annually by European longlines
Desdemona Despair
November 2009
Birdsong helps scientists to count bird populations
BBC News
Why Do Hummingbirds “Sing” with Both Their Tail and Their Syrinx?
NeuroDojo
(see original Am Nat paper here)
Feet shape and hunting techniques in raptors
A DC Birding Blog
(see original PLoS ONE paper here)
Tiny birds have more complex songs than big birds
TopNews.in
(see original paper in J. Evol. Biol.)
New method to determine chick sex
ScienceDaily
Europe's red kites in peril
RSPB
Explore online what Darwin wrote about birds in his correspondence
Extinct Moa rewrites New Zealand's history
ScienceDaily
(link to original PNAS paper)
Why do Toucans have large bill?
Unruled Notebook blog
(link to original Science paper)
A new species of finch may have evolved in the Galapagos
The Evolution List blog
(link to original PNAS paper by Peter & Rosemary Grant)
Studies suggest males have more personality
EurekAlert!
A rare mockingbird could be reintroduced to the Galapagos Islands - with the help of some specimens collected by Charles Darwin
BBC News
Hundreds of thousands of signals from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, and marine mammals write the first atlas of South America’s Patagonian Sea.
Wildlife Conservation Society
Wind-farms increase extinction probability
(en ESPAÑOL: Los parques eólicos aumentan la probabilidad de extinción)
Estación Biológica de Doñana
Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques
ScienceDaily
Birds need between 5 and 20 times as much light as humans to see colors
ScienceDaily
Brown Pelican delisted
A DC Birding Blog
Rare birds monitored by dog GPS
BBCNews
A new life for Croatia's griffon vultures
Telegraph
Female canaries sing sexily with testosterone
ScienceDaily
Making commercial plantations better for birds
Conservation Maven
Pelicans filmed eating gannet chicks (VIDEO)
BBC EarthNews
Endangered birds share traits with extinct species
JournOwl
Too sanitary for vultures
Estación Biológica de Doñana
(original Science Letter)
A marvellous hummingbird display
BBC EarthNews
see video
Extinction crisis continues apace
BirdLife International
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