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Biology
The analysis reveals global patterns of trait matching in bird and plant networks
A: Chestnut-colored Oriol (Oriolus trailii) (Lindera sp.) eating spicewood fruit; B: Flower pecker (Dicaeum cruentatum) supported by scar-colored eating fruit of drizzling (Viscum sp.). Credit: Midiexiang, Red Vision In 1862, Charles Darwin predicted the presence of moth with his long tongue, based on the nectar spur of comet orchids. This was confirmed in the long-carved Hawkmoth discovery in 1903, showing…
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Why community volunteers are essential to how New Zealand deals with the arrival of bird flu
Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Pacific Island countries are the only countries free of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The deadly avian influenza virus was first detected in the Southern Hemisphere in 2023 and has spread through South America to sub-Antarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. The virus is decimating wild bird populations around the world, with millions of dead birds…
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Study shows bird flight paths past two wind farms proposed for Bass Strait
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A world-first study of migratory bird movements across Bass Strait has found the birds are moving directly through areas designated by the federal government for two offshore wind farms. Monash University researchers studying Tasmania’s boob owl have for the first time investigated its flight migration path from Victoria to Tasmania, tracking the birds via satellite and…
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What you need to know about bird flu in Pennsylvania
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As cases of bird flu have been reported across species and locations, states across the country are taking precautions to prevent the spread of the virus. The Pennsylvania Farm Show, which starts later this week and draws hundreds of thousands of people, is a potential breeding ground for virus transmission, and the state Department of Agriculture…
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Can captive breeding save this disappearing Everglades bird?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Florida water managers approve a breeding program for the endangered Everglades sparrow, which has been at the center of debate for decades over how to move water to dry wetlands to restore them. did. Cape Sable’s beach sparrow pilot program is likely to alter seasonal flood control in the sparrow’s habitat, which managers say could…
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World’s oldest known wild bird gives birth again at 74 years old
Wisdom (R), a Laysan albatross who is at least 74 years old, is pregnant again. Parenting can be difficult even for the young and energetic, but one elderly albatross is about to experience it again at the ripe (and apparently record-setting) age of 74. Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is one of the millions of giant seabirds that return to Midway…
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Biologists identify traits that correlate with extinction of all bird species since 1500
Aki Kiki, an endangered species, photographed on Kauai in 2022 by lead study author Kyle Kittelberger. Credit: Kyle Kittelberger University of Utah biologists have completed an analysis that identifies characteristics that correlate with all 216 bird extinctions since 1500, with the goal of informing conservation of endangered bird species. Research published this month shows that the species most likely to…
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The long-billed sandpiper could become extinct, making it the third bird species to disappear from the Western Palearctic region.
10, with yellow intensity increasing as the number of specimens increases and blue intensity increasing as the number of records increases. will also increase. If both numbers are high, they are shown in dark blue. The dotted line indicates the widest possible breeding area according to Buchanan et al. (2018), black dots indicate breeding areas identified by Ushakov (1912). Credit:…
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The will of flogging has been a harbinger of death for centuries. What happened to this iconic bird of American horror?
Credit: TonyCastro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In one of the most haunting scenes from Stephen King’s 1975 novel Salem’s Lot, a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson rushes to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. Masu. As night approaches, Mike is struck by disturbing thoughts. It was about Danny being buried with his eyes open. To…
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Outdoor businesses and venues could benefit from increased biodiversity through bird calls
Significant relationships between bird species richness and standardized acoustic indices in 21 UK vineyards (a) ACI: Acoustic Complexity Index; (b) BIO: Bioacoustic Index. (c) NDSI: Normalized Differential Soundscape Index. (d) H: Acoustic entropy index. Lines represent model predicted values with 95% confidence intervals (shading) from the generalized linear mixed model, and points indicate raw standardized acoustic index values (jittered for…
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