December 2009

Zoo penguins help Antarctic birds BBC News "Nest boxes" for Burrowing Owls JournOwl Results Are In From First Antarctica Christmas Bird Count AudubonMagazine.org Fewer Migratory Birds in Dutch Woods Due to Climate Change ScienceDaily New Warbler Discovered in Laos ScienceDaily Poisonous Prehistoric 'Raptor' Discovered in China ScienceDaily Cuckholding crows don't necessarily have healthier chicks Denim and Tweed Birds Favor Most Promising Offspring LiveScience Ventriloquist Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies ScienceDaily New issue of the Catalan Journal of Ornithology already online (and free) Institut Català d'Ornitologia Sexual selection and avian influenza in Ducks Estación Biológica de Doñana Sparrows' Sex Life Offers Clues About Global Warming Hartford Courant Birds may expand the range of Lyme disease and its vector tick EcoTone Complex life of marsh birds: Coots foil nest invaders, reject impostors ScienceDaily Fungi reveal internal feather structure to the miscroscope Not Exactly Rocket Science New Leaf Warbler from Vietnam A DC Birding Blog The negative impact of salvage logging on birds Conservation Maven Removing Barred Owls to protect Northern Spotted Owls OregonLive.com Clues to what birds do on a trans-Sahara trip The New York Times (see original Biology Letters paper here Sexual selection also produces sexy plumages in females Live Science (see original Nature paper here) Tropical birds waited for land crossing between North and South America ScienceDaily (see original PNAS paper here) Another livestock drug endangers vultures ScienceNews Foraging associations between treeshrews, drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Island, India Not Exactly Rocket Science (see original Biology Letters paper here) Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne NewScientist Climate change and birds 10,000 Birds Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons NewScientist. (see related TREE paper here) Some birds listen, instead of look, for Mates ScienceDaily (see free PLoS ONE paper here) Iron Curtain kept out alien birds BBC News Birds call to warn friends and enemies e! Science News Egg membrane thickness increases during development Estación Biológica de Doñana (see original Naturwissenschaften paper here) British birdfeeders split blackcaps into two genetically distinct groups Not Exactly Rocket Science (see original Current Biology paper here) Clever ravens cooperatively hunt BBC Earth News Ecologically relevant spatial memory use modulates hippocampal neurogenesis NeuroDojo (see original paper here) A historic paper on Cuckoo behavior A DC Birding Blog This is one of the 60 papers now available because of the 350th anniversary of The Royal Society How hummingbirds get their nectar with tiny ‘straws’ The New York Times 200,000 seabirds killed annually by European longlines Desdemona Despair