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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 (PHOTO:Experimenters survey insects on a cottonwood tree exclosure) A warthog is pictured being groomed by a huge hornbill bird, a scene never reported before. BBC Earth News 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

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