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Tiny birds have more complex songs than big birds
Toronto :: Canada | about 8 hours ago
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While big birds are very loud, they are not as creative and intricate as their petite feathered friends when it comes to singing, according to a new research. A bird's song is as much the outcome of the evolutionary battle for sexual selection as its...
Tags: Dr Goncalo Cardoso, Canada, Toronto, Evolution, Passerine, Species, Selection, Songbird, Evolutionary biology, Animals, Bird, Environment
Gannets not so monogamous after all
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 17 hours ago
Credibility Australasian gannets once thought to pair-bond for life have a divorce rate similar to humans. Steffi Ismar from Auckland University says it has always been assumed the birds are monogamous, and they have been held up as an example of fidelity for humans,...
Tags: australasian gannets, divorce rate, Switzerland, Zurich, Monogamy, Breeding season, Australasian Gannet, Bird, Pair bond, Human Interest, Animal sexuality, Ethology, Gannets, Environment, Hunting
Hunting for Turkeys, for the First Time
Yaphank :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility 45 a.m., armed with a Mossberg 835 12-gauge shotgun painted in camouflage colors and his “sippy cup,” a travel mug full of coffee, John T. Rauh pulled his big red Ford F-250 out of the driveway, his Navy dog tags swinging from the rearview mirror. He...
Tags: Mr. Rauh, Long Island Expressway, trophy bird, N.Y, Suffolk County, Yaphank, Wild Turkey, Turkey hunting, Domestic turkey, Turkey, Bird, Game birds, Poultry, Meleagrididae
Animal Nastiness is the Flu !
Why is it "Experts" are allowed to ramble on about the "Flu"? The Flu is a year long medical issue. Yet the "experts" are not able to create enough vaccine yet alone start producing it until the actual yearly virus becomes known. So why all...
Tags: Animal, flu, Pig, Bird, Swine, Government, politics, health, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, If—, Go, Animal virology, Pandemics, Pulmonology, Environment, H5N1, Influenza, Outbreak, animal nasty
Meaning in dove hunt changes with the years
Austin :: TX :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility A newly minted full moon popped above the mesquites ringing the clearing in the brush, big and bright and looking as if it had been born right in that spot, for just that perfect moment on a fall afternoon. The windmill creating the tiny oasis that mourning...
Tags: dove hunt, Austin, Shotgun, Bird, Mourning Dove, Game birds, Zenaida, Columbidae
Waiting out the fog and watching green jays
Premont :: TX :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility It's just daylight on the first day of deer season, and fog and dew, especially when you look down from an elevated hunting tower, have laid a gray blanket over the brush. Fog happens in South Texas — especially as weather trends warmer and winds push...
Tags: green jays, Premont, Deer, Bird, Hunting, Deer hunting, Fog, Eh Eh
Want to save money on your electric bill?
Princeton :: NJ :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The city of Princeton is continuing its efforts to help customers save money on their energy bills. At Monday’s Princeton City Council meeting, Superintendent of Electric Jason Bird gave an update on energy-saving opportunities available to customers,...
Tags: Bird, Princeton City Council, energy audits, electric department, online survey, Princeton, Energy Star, Energy conservation, Energy audit, Efficient energy use, Environment, Business Finance
Birds `can talk out of the corner of their mouths`!
Noida :: India | 5 days ago
Credibility Birds 'can talk out of the corner of their mouths' Updated on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 20:12 IST London: Birds are more clever than you thought -- the avians can talk out of the corner of their mouths in a bid to scare off predators, says a new...
Simon Armitage and Tim Dee's top 10 bird poems
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility A wandering albatross tests the air on a clifftop near Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Glenn Jeffrey/Reuters As well as being one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed poets, Simon Armitage is also a dramatist, novelist, broadcaster and the winner...
Tags: Simon Armitage, bird poem, Tim Dee, United Kingdom, Bristol, John Clare, English poetry, Yellowhammer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover, Bird, Environment
Whooping cranes on the way
Milwaukee :: WI :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Somewhere in LaSalle County, Ill., 20 whooping cranes are awaiting better weather. The cranes are part of Operation Migration, a nonprofit group establishing a migrating flock of endangered whooping cranes that will nest in Wisconsin and winter in Florida....
Tags: operation migrating, whooping cranes, St. Marks Wildlife Refuge, Milwaukee, Bird migration, Crane, Bird, Bill Lishman, International Crane Foundation, Grus, Whooping Crane, Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, Environment
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