News tagged with bird migrations
Climate change makes migrations longer for birds
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.
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Panama butterfly migrations linked to El Nino, climate change
Oct 05, 2009 |
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A high-speed chase across the Panama Canal in a Boston Whaler may sound like the beginning of another James Bond film—but the protagonist of this story brandishes a butterfly net and studies the effects of ...
Elephant seals take naps while diving
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study may have solved the long-standing question of how elephants sleep during their long migrations at sea, when they can be away from land for up to eight months.
It's for the birds: Historical bird files give insight into climate change
Mar 18, 2009 |
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On Nov. 1, 1933, Mrs. Bruce Reid recorded seeing both a male and female ivory-billed woodpecker in Texas. And on May 28, 1938, Oscar McKinley Bryans observed a ruby-throated hummingbird in Michigan, noting that the birds ...
Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers
Aug 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected.
Birds migrate earlier, but some may be left behind as the climate warms rapidly
Jun 20, 2008 |
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Many birds are arriving earlier each spring as temperatures warm along the East Coast of the United States. However, the farther those birds journey, the less likely they are to keep pace with the rapidly changing climate.
BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.
Red knot birds threatened by crab decline
Feb 21, 2006 |
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Virginia Tech and New Jersey scientists say a reduction in the number of red knot shorebirds is linked with a decline in Delaware Bay's horseshoe crabs.
Limestone leaf warbler: New bird species discovered
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A diminutive, colorful bird living in the rocky forests of Laos and Vietnam has been discovered by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Lao PDR Department of Forestry, Swedish University ...
Stuffing the turkey and other Thanksgiving food-safety mistakes
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What would a Thanksgiving turkey be without its stuffing, and what better place for that stuffing than inside the turkey? Despite the tradition involved, a food-safety specialist in Penn State's College of ...
Earliest toothless bird found
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of bird from the Cretaceous period in China has been identified. It had toothless upper and lower jaws, and provides significant information on the diversification in the evolution ...
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