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)