A collaborative project between researchers in Asia and Oregon has helped establish a new breeding colony for one of the world's most endangered seabirds – the Chinese crested tern, which has a global population estimated ...
Ecology
Oct 9, 2013
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To study bird feeding and breeding behavior, ornithologists used to tag birds with colored bands and then painstakingly track the birds' activity. But now, an existing technology repurposed for tracking birds by researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2012
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The knowledge that bacteria possess adaptable immune systems that protect them from individual viruses and other foreign invaders is relatively new to science, and researchers across the globe are working to learn how these ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 5, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New information on bird migration is revealed by an international team of scientists who have confirmed that the Arctic tern flies more than 70,000 km on its annual migration trip from pole to pole — the ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2010
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