Birds News
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By AFP
Geneva -
A Swiss hawk enthusiast was on Wednesday sentenced to three years behind bars for stealing more than 10,000 bird feathers worth an estimated $6 million from European museums.
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By AFP
Nicosia -
Volunteers and police in Cyprus are struggling to tackle illegal songbird trapping operations that kill millions of birds a year and net huge profits for poaching gangs.
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Algal blooms are a big problem in many parts of the world. Algae can deplete oxygen levels in lakes and produce toxins which threatened aquatic life. One influencing factor on algal levels is bird feces.
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Yellowknife -
Once a parking ticket is issued it must be paid. It does not matter if the ticket blows away, is taken by another person, or eaten by a bird. The city of Yellowknife will not accept "the raven ate my ticket" as an excuse for non-payment.
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Edinburgh -
Changing temperatures and a warmer climate are causing birds to migrate earlier and to head for their breeding grounds, according to a new research study. This relates to information collated over the course of several summers.
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Wroclaw -
A slow crawling, slimy slug may not seem like much of a threat, but to newborn baby birds, unable to fly or defend themselves, slugs are a risk. New research shows how the slugs devour the fledglings.
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By AFP
Madrid -
They may be cute, colourful and chatty, but South American quaker parrots have taken up residence in Madrid and other Spanish cities, irritating residents with their shrill squawks and destabilising the ecosystem.
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Bird song varies and birds sing differently for different reasons. In a remarkable find scientists have discovered that birds sing to their unborn chicks to warn them of hot weather.
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Plenty of books and magazine articles encourage people to design their gardens in different ways to attract more birds. A new study suggests this can often causes harm to birds.
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Methylmercury, a potent neurotoxin has been found in sea ice in the Southern Ocean, according to new research. This latest study demonstrates how sea ice bacteria can change mercury into its more lethal form, contaminating marine life and birds.
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An explanation has been provided for a serious disease of birds where the feathers rot away and fall off. This disease is caused by feather-degrading bacteria. The solution requires a joined-up approach to conservation.
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Aberdeen -
Red kites have been swooping down when swimmers peel off their clothes take a dip at a popular bathing spot near Glen Esk in Scotland. What are the birds doing with the garments?
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By AFP
Miami -
In this small animal hospital perched on Miami's sun-splashed harbor, some of the most exotic creatures fly in and out of Carla Zepeda's life.
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A new study, using slow-motion capture photography, has revealed that male peacocks undertake a series of movements, including a move that resembles twerking, it to attract peahens.
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While there's plenty of evidence to suggest that dinosaurs were already in decline millions of years before the asteroid impact that spelled their doom, we know that those small, feathered theropod dinosaurs, otherwise known as birds, did survive.
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Crows are one of the smartest birds known and they have an incredible memory. A new insight, based on brain activity in the birds, reveals why these birds have such effective memory recall.
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Madrid -
A large number of waterbirds have been killed in Spain in recent years due to the bacterial disease botulism. It is thought the infection is being spread by an invasive species of water snail.
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Are birds capable of altruistic behavior? A new video suggests so. The scene, shot in Saudi Arabia, shows a robin slapping wings and stroking unconscious partners using its beak. The bird regains consciousness and flies away.
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This week over one million people in the U.K. are taking part in the 'Big Garden Bird Watch,' an example of mass participation of citizen science in action.
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As winter sets in across Alberta many bird species head south, but even with the cold weather and deep snow some birds stick around. They are the hardy few, which make Alberta and Canada their year-round home.
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An enchanting video has been released showing adorable and colourful birds undertake a rhythmical dance, replete with toe-tapping action, in a bid to attract a mate.
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Cape Girardeau -
For the second year in a row, a captive female snake in southern Missouri has given birth even though she hasn't been anywhere near a male snake for eight years.
The yellow–bellied water snake gave birth in 2014, and then did it again this summer.
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Scientists have now solved an important piece of the turtle evolution puzzle.
Recent fossil evidence has helped paleontologists prove that turtles share a recent common ancestor with birds, lizards, and crocodiles.
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Hummingbird tongues function as elastic micropumps instead of simple thin tubes, researchers have reported. This insight into the birds is not shared by all biologists.
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The colorful and varied birds of South Africa contain a range of different pathogens and parasites. Among this array of microscopic organisms are the single-celled animals that cause malaria. The range has surprised scientists.
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A recent campaign to select the U.K.’s most popular bird has been concluded and the winner, unsurprisingly to many, is the robin. The European male variety is distinguished by a distinctive red breast.
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Dinosaurs grew quickly and were warm-blooded just like modern mammals, says a scientist who researched the metabolism of these ancient creatures.
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In Canada a bird enthusiast has designed and built a miniature bar, complete with TV and Coke machine, offering refreshments to local avians.
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Sometimes surprises come in tiny packages. That's the case with jumping spiders, scientists have found.
Scientists know that jumpers have excellent vision. What they didn't know until now is that these little creatures can see more colors than we do.
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Like a canary in a coalmine, birds are a good indicator of the quality of an environment. A study has found that Fukushima prefecture has not been friendly to our feathered friends since that fateful day four years ago, and things are not getting better.
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Birds Image
Images of birds, Seneca Lake, the park, etc.
Yellow Warblers, are inhabitants of wetlands.
Partial view of Rosebreasted Grosbeak. Taken in 2008 in May at Oakburn Manitoba.
Photo of a Brolga taken at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland, AU
The Canada goose - a large goose, with a distinctive black head and neck and large white throat patch.
Images of birds, Seneca Lake, the park, etc.
A Muscovy duck duckling. Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez
The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Adamo
Some big, native birds on the rocks of Castle Hill in Alanya
Images of birds, Seneca Lake, the park, etc.
Images of birds, Seneca Lake, the park, etc.
Birds have abandoned Seahorse Key, but no one is quite sure what to blame. Wochit News
A blackbird helps itself to worms while two horses wearing their autumn coats graze in the October sun surrounded by golden and yellow-coloured trees.
The Oriental Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis), photographed in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The Large-billed Reed Warbler is similar in appearance. J.M. Garg
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