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'Weedy' bird species may win as temperatures rise
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Climate change is altering North American winter bird communities in ways that models currently favored by ecologists fail to predict.
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Feed the birds: Winter feeding makes for better breeding
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Feb 06, 2008 |
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Keep feeding the birds over winter: that’s the message from research by the University of Exeter and Queen’s University Belfast, published today (6 February 2008) in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The study shows ...
Warming brings more birds north in winter
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Long-term global warming is prompting North American birds to winter farther north -- a trend more noticeable in Alaska than anywhere else in the nation, according to a new study by the National Audubon Society.
Tropical winter habitat drives natal dispersal of young migratory birds
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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A new study by scientists at the Migratory Bird Center at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo shows that the factors determining where birds settle and nest in the first breeding season depends on the habitat they used during ...
New bird species reported in Nepal
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Sep 06, 2006 |
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Ornithologists say they have found a new species of bird in Nepal's Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve.
Human vaccine against bird flu a reality with new discovery
Mar 02, 2009 |
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A vaccine to protect humans from a bird flu pandemic is within reach after a new discovery by researchers at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Early environment may be key to determining bird migration location
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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How young migratory birds choose the nesting location of their first breeding season has been something of a mystery in the bird world. But a new University of Maryland/National Zoo study of the American redstart suggests ...
Snowy owl -- a marine species?
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Dec 10, 2008 |
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Wildlife satellite studies could lead to a radical re-thinking about how the snowy owl fits into the Northern ecosystem.
European birds flock to warming Britain
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.
Study: Migrating birds didn't spread flu
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May 11, 2006 |
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European scientists say despite predictions migrating birds would spread avian flu across Europe this spring, studies indicate that did not occur.
In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers
Dec 04, 2009 |
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When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.
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