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)