Tag: Birds - Page 12
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Three Birds Fly Over 3,700 Miles Without Stopping
In what seems like the storyline from an awesome buddy-film, researchers from Sweden have recorded one of the most remarkable road air-trips ever seen in nature -- three birds together on a non-stop, 3,728 mile, shotgun-style
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Audubon Honors Sigourney Weaver and Women Driving Gulf Coast Relief Efforts (Photos)
Sigourney Weaver accepts Audubon's Rachel Carson Award. Photo: Audubon Women in Conservation The National Audubon Society brought the attention of their Eighth Annual Women in Conservation Luncheon to the work of many women who spearheaded relief
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Aussie Birds Get Drunk, Loud, and Fall From the Sky
Every year around this time, medical offices in Australia are deluged with cases of loud drunks that are so intoxicated they've tumbled to the ground. No, they aren't rowdy rugby fans who've had one too many-- they're
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The Week in Animal News: Smuggler's Suitcase Packed with Babies, Cat and Owl BFF, and More (Slideshow)
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried, and sadly, it's all true. A man has been arrested with baby exotic animals of all sorts stashed in his suitcase, in an attempt to smuggle the drugged leopard and bear cubs,
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The Week in Animal News: Smuggler's Suitcase Packed with Babies, Cat and Owl BFF, and More
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried, and sadly, it's all true. A man has been arrested with baby exotic animals of all sorts stashed in his suitcase, in an attempt to smuggle the drugged leopard and bear cubs, monkeys, and more out of the country a
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Cat and Owl Playing (Video)
Fum, the black cat, and Gebra, the owl, star as best friends forever in a video that proves love conquers all. Judging from the way Fum climbs trees, he is in full possession of a sharp set of claws. And owl talons...well,
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Birdwatchers' Digital Trickery is Pissing Birds Off
Usually, birdwatching requires patience, dedication, and stealth for chance to glimpse some of nature's coyest creatures -- but the luxuries of the digital era have caught up with this age old pastime, and birds are none too
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Dry Weather Leaves UK Birds Without Mud for Nests
I'm so used to people complaining about swallows building their mud nests under eaves and along fascia boards that this latest request for homeowners to please leave dishes of mud out for swallows comes as quite a
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What's Brought 32,000 Parakeets to London's Suburbs?
In April, Brian lamented new population maps that show Americans are still moving to the suburbs. But the study was restricted to the United States, and only looked at human population shifts. Which
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The Week in Animal News: Animal Moms, Zombie Ants, and More (Slideshow)
For a species on the brink of extinction, some animal moms, including this momma orangutan, are particularly important.
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The Week in Animal News: Animal Moms, Zombie Ants, and More
For a species on the brink of extinction, some animal moms, including this momma orangutan, are particularly important. We also have a report on the shocking fungus that turns ants into zombies, songbirds that can't understand each other, whale strandin
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Indian Vultures Show Some Signs Of Recovery Since Veterinary Painkiller Ban
Some good news on the critically endangered Indian vulture: New research published in PLoS One documents how the rate of the bird's decline has fallen since India, Nepal, and Pakistan banned the veterinary painkiller
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Public Lands Are Key To Survival of North American Bird Species
The 2011 State of Birds report is out, and this year there is a keen focus on how more attention to the conservation of public lands is the real muscle behind conservation of birds. From aridlands to coastlines, it's public
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Experts Baffled by How a Kiwi Ended Up in Russia
It's a long way from the southern climes of New Zealand to the port city of Sochi, Russia -- especially for a creature with no obvious means of getting there. Nevertheless, an endangered (and flightless) kiwi was recently
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Birds in New Zealand Developing Entirely New Songs
There's an avian music revolution underway on several small islands in New Zealand as a slew of new bird songs seem to have arisen out of nowhere -- but this more diverse music scene isn't necessarily a good thing for the birds
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High-Speed Video Reveals Surprising Way Hummingbirds Drink (Video)
There's a lot that is unusual about lightening-fast hummingbirds, and now scientists realize that one of those things is how they drink. New high-speed video footage shows in detail the strange way a hummingbird's tongue traps
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Birds Fly Farther North as Winter Temperatures Rise
In recent decades, birdwatchers in North Carolina have had to travel farther and farther north to catch a glimpse of their beloved wrens and waxwings, and scientists suggest that changes in the climate could be to blame
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Birds With Orange and Brown Plummage More Sensitive to Chernobyl Radiation
On April 26, 1986, reactor four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic power increase that led to an explosion of its core and the dispersal of radioactive fallout over 100,000 square
