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Society warns cuckoo bird in danger of extinction (AP)

Society warns cuckoo bird in danger of extinction

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Britain's cuckoo bird, known for its distinctive call, is in danger of extinction along with 51 other species, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said in a new report Thursday.





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Lost cuckoo breaks its silence

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created Feb 26, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran ground cuckoo, found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.


Birds use social learning to enhance nest defense

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Reed warblers live with the threat that a cuckoo bird will infiltrate their nest, remove one of their eggs, and replace it with the cuckoo's own. This 'parasitism' enables the cuckoo to have its young raised by unsuspecting ...


How birds spot the cuckoo in the nest

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created Jul 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

It's not always easy spotting the cuckoo in the nest. But if you don't, you pay a high price raising someone else's chick. How hosts distinguish impostor eggs from their own has long puzzled scientists.


Birds' strategic mobbing fends off parasitic invaders

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created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reed warblers use mobbing as a front line of nest defense against parasitic cuckoos, according to a new report published online on January 29th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. Cuckoos act as parasites by lay ...


Bumblebee re-introduced to UK

Bumblebee re-introduced to UK

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This month, a campaign was launched to re-introduce the short-haired bumblebee to the UK from New Zealand.


Art and music for the birds

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 20, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Nature is a valued source of inspiration for artists. But what have artists offered the natural world? Would a bird even like rock and roll?


Extinct parrot resurfaces in Aberdeen

Extinct parrot resurfaces in Aberdeen

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created Jan 30, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

The University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum (UK) has taken care of a case of mounted Australian birds, one of which is the spectacular but sadly extinct Paradise Parrot Psephotus pulcherrimus.


Feds to reconsider protecting mountain plovers

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal officials will reconsider whether a bird that breeds in Colorado and neighboring states and summers in California should be protected.


BirdsEye -- a new iPhone app -- resolves your rapture for raptors or finding a finch

Biology / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Looking for larks? Searching for surfbirds? Checking for chickadees? There's an app for that.


Stuffing the turkey and other Thanksgiving food-safety mistakes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(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 ...



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