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