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« Reply #1545 on: January 22, 2018, 02:50:41 PM »
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« Reply #1546 on: January 25, 2018, 02:51:31 PM »
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« Reply #1550 on: January 25, 2018, 02:58:04 PM »
Warming temperatures may cause birds to shrink

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-temperatures-birds.html

Quote: "They found that maximum temperatures during the summer, when the birds breed, were a better predictor of adult body size at each location than winter minimum temperatures."

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-temperatures-birds.html#jCp


The size of European House Sparrows in Australia and New Zealand may be influenced by high temperatures during development. Credit: P. Deviche

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« Reply #1552 on: January 26, 2018, 12:22:02 PM »
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« Reply #1553 on: January 26, 2018, 12:25:38 PM »
Using GPS Transmitters to Explore Movement Ecology and to Assess Risk of the Wind Energy Industry for Swainson's Hawks

https://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/1408777

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« Reply #1554 on: January 26, 2018, 12:28:13 PM »
Abstract: A bridge between oceans: Overland migration of marine birds in a wind energy corridor

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jav.01474/full
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« Reply #1555 on: January 26, 2018, 12:57:32 PM »
Journal of Avian Biology:  Abstracts and links to papers from October 2017 - January 2018

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/rss/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1600-048X

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« Reply #1556 on: January 26, 2018, 06:33:26 PM »
Bird gene-mapping project studies biodiversity, effect of climate change

http://dailybruin.com/2018/01/25/bird-gene-mapping-project-studies-biodiversity-effect-of-climate-change/

Abstract: Genomic signals of selection predict climate-driven population declines in a migratory bird

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/83

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« Reply #1558 on: January 27, 2018, 02:09:45 PM »
Songbirds on Alberta oilfields are changing their tunes to cope with the noise

http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oilpatch-noise-pollution-causes-songbirds-to-change-their-usual-tune-study-says

Abstract: Noise from four types of extractive energy infrastructure affects song features of Savannah Sparrows

http://www.americanornithologypubs.org/doi/abs/10.1650/CONDOR-17-69.1

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