News tagged with shorebirds
Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean
Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Whimbrel successfully negotiates most severe part of Hurricane Irene
Scientists are tracking a migrating shorebird that appears to have survived flying through the most dangerous segment of Hurricane Irene.
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Research bolsters importance of horseshoe crab spawning for migrating shorebirds
Speculation that the welfare of a small, at-risk shorebird is directly tied to horseshoe crab populations is in part supported by new scientific research, according to a U.S. Geological Survey- led study published this ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Study finds tiny shorebirds benefit from big storms
Tiny threatened shorebirds on Florida's west coast not only survive hurricanes, they seem to benefit from the storms' aftereffects, according to new research findings that contradict conventional wisdom.
Jan 13, 2011 |
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World traveling godwits keep a strict schedule
New research has shown bar-tailed godwits are hard-wired to keep to tight schedules for their extraordinary annual 30,000km return journey between New Zealand and Alaska.
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web
(AP) -- Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled ...
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Cages and emetics rescue wading birds
The number of waders (shorebirds) in Sweden is falling rapidly. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have tested drastic new methods to protect species such as the Northern lapwing and redshank from ...
May 10, 2010 |
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High Arctic species on thin ice
A new assessment of the Arctic's biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic.
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Bird migration becoming more hazardous
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can you imagine living your whole life in summer? In one of the most spectacular wildlife migrations on the planet, millions of shorebirds do exactly this by making a 20,000km round trip from their Arctic ...
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Shorebirds shape up and ship out
Some Canadian shorebirds have had to get fit or die trying. Research published in the open access journal BMC Ecology has found that the average Pacific dunlin has lost weight and spends more time in flight as a response to the ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Study: Shorebirds who fly deep into Arctic face less predator danger
Every year, shorebirds flap thousands and thousands of miles to the northern hemisphere, then back to the south. It's already an exhausting round trip. Yet some of those sandpipers and plovers choose to head deeper into the ...
Jan 17, 2010 |
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Birds with a nose for a difference
Avoidance of inbreeding is evident amongst humans, and has been demonstrated in some shorebirds, mice and sand lizards. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology now report that it also occurs ...
Jun 30, 2009 |
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