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)
miércoles, 1 de junio de 2011
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