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« Reply #2250 on: April 05, 2019, 11:39:13 AM »
David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2198797-david-attenboroughs-our-planet-on-netflix-is-beautiful-but-empty/


A young Philippine eagle sits atop the rainforest canopy, noisily badgering its mother for food.
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« Reply #2251 on: April 06, 2019, 11:05:20 AM »
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Feather mites may help clean birds' plumage, study shows

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190328150700.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Paper: Feather mites play a role in cleaning host feathers: New insights from DNA metabarcoding and microscopy

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mec.14581


Feather mites, like those depicted here on a wing feather of an Eastern Bluebird, are harmless, possibly even beneficial to their host birds. Credit: Heather Proctor

More: This hair-raising feather mite is a vacuum cleaner for birds

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/hair-raising-feather-mite-vacuum-cleaner-birds

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« Reply #2252 on: April 06, 2019, 09:40:22 PM »
Beach-nesting eagles

https://ccbbirds.org/2019/04/02/beach-nesting-eagles/?fbclid=IwAR22N5A4cyaKgg4lftWyakDzQNA6ZpdAiQOLaHqCe2sMji6yqMxv6sO5mmc


Nest out on the beach on north Smith Island with adult brooding small eaglets on 30 March 2019. Photo by Bryan Watts.

Generational habituation and current bald eagle populations

http://www.berrymaninstitute.org/files/HWI_7.1_pp69-76_small.pdf

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« Reply #2253 on: April 08, 2019, 01:35:17 PM »
Personalities promote adaptability

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-personalities.html


Bold great tits lay their eggs earlier when under threat, the shy ones put it off.
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« Reply #2254 on: April 08, 2019, 01:57:22 PM »
Alien Bird Species Can Help Native Plants Move Around, Say Surprised Scientists

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2019/04/07/alien-bird-species-can-help-native-plants-move-around-say-surprised-scientists/#5a2641cf4354

Novel Hawaiian communities operate similarly to native ecosystems

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190404143657.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Red-billed Leiothrix, Leiothrix lutea, sometimes known to aviculturists as the Pekin Robin or as the Pekin Nightingale, is one of many non-native species that can be found on the Hawaiian Isles. Native to lowland forests of India, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma and parts of Tibet, it was introduced to Hawai'i in 1918, and subsequently spread throughout all the islands except Lanai.
(Credit: Dibyendu Ash / CC BY-SA 3.0) Dibyendu Ash via a Creative Commons license


In Hawaii's novel seed dispersal networks, introduced birds primarily disperse introduced plants. In a new study published in Science, research shows these novel networks operate very similarly to native communities worldwide.
Credit: Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni
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Screw-shaped bird sperm swim faster -- but it comes at a cost

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190404143755.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Abstract: Sperm head morphology is associated with sperm swimming speed: A comparative study of songbirds using electron microscopy

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/evo.13555

Abstract: Sperm head abnormalities are more frequent in songbirds with more helical sperm: A possible trade‐off in sperm evolution

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.13446
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Scientists explore causes of biodiversity in perching birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190405144853.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Cape Sugarbird (Promerops afer) perched atop a Protea (also known as a sugarbush) along the coast of the Western Cape, South Africa. Both the sugarbird clade and Protea, their preferred source of nectar, are endemic to southern Africa.
Credit: Daniel Field
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« Reply #2259 on: April 09, 2019, 03:37:02 PM »
(BORTOLOTTI - 1984) PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NESTLING BALD EAGLES WITH EMPHASIS ON THE TIMING OF GROWTH EVENTS

https://www.usask.ca/biology/bortolotti/pubs/wb96-4-524-542.pdf
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Why black kites attack humans

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/why-black-kites-attack-humans-63892

Paper: Human-attacks by an urban raptor are tied to human subsidies and religious practices

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38662-z


A Black kite takes off from its nest on a light pole to attack the photographer, who is standing on a balcony (Photo credit: F. Sergio).
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Collision sensitive niche profile of the worst affected bird-groups at wind turbine structures in the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22178-z


Thematic diagram explaining the collision sensitive ecological niche with respect to the ecological niche against distance to edge based land-use classes.
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Volunteer birdwatching survey shows effects of temperatures on population of Jays

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190409083235.htm

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