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Study fuels debate about why female birds seek extra mates
Apr 30, 2009 |
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When female birds mate with males other than their social partners and have broods of mixed paternity, the offspring sired by these "extra-pair" fathers may often get a head start in life, according to a new report published ...
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Seagulls: Are males the weaker sex?
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May 07, 2008 |
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Male seagulls may be more vulnerable to their environment during embryonic development than females, according to Maria Bogdanova and Ruedi Nager from the University of Glasgow in the UK. Until now, the sex differences in ...
High hormone levels in seabird chicks prepare them to kill their siblings
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Jun 19, 2008 |
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The Nazca booby, a Galápagos Island seabird, emerges from its shell ready to kill its brother or sister. Wake Forest University biologists and their colleagues have linked the murderous behavior to high levels ...
Webcam fans mourn Calif. bald eagle chick deaths
Apr 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago.
Mothers give interloper's offspring a head start in life
May 14, 2009 |
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A new study has revealed that mother birds can provide an early advantage to the chicks that they have sired with their non-social partner (known as extra-pair offspring).
Rare North Island brown kiwi hatches at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
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Mar 12, 2008 |
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Early Friday morning, March 7, one of the world’s most endangered species—a North Island brown kiwi—hatched at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Bird House. Keepers had been incubating the egg for five weeks, ...
Early bird doesn't always get worm, researcher finds
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Mar 12, 2008 |
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Competing against older brothers and sisters can be tough work, as any youngest child will tell you. But new research from a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that when it comes to some birds, ...
Study finds healthy intestinal bacteria within chicken eggs
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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The conventional wisdom among scientists has long been that birds acquire the intestinal bacteria that are a necessary for good health from their environment, but a new University of Georgia study finds that chickens are ...
Norway's Puffin chicks lack food
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Jul 17, 2007 |
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Very few puffin chicks born this year on the Norwegian island of Rost are expected to survive due to shortages of the birds' food source.
Rescuing male turkey chicks
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in ...
Male bird at Smithsonian's National Zoo has special reason to celebrate Father's Day
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Jun 07, 2008 |
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How will the only male rhea at the Smithsonian's National Zoo spend Father's Day? He will spend it much like he has spent the past eight weeks: as a proud papa nurturing and caring for his four chicks born ...
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