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« Reply #1920 on: September 18, 2018, 07:41:13 PM »
Evaluating a Commercial-Ready Technology for Raptor Detection and Deterrence at a Wind Energy Facility in California (not such a good idea  ;))

https://awwi.org/resources/dtbird-technical-report/

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« Reply #1921 on: September 20, 2018, 08:58:34 PM »
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« Reply #1922 on: September 20, 2018, 09:01:22 PM »
How birds can stay slim, even when they overeat

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180918110950.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29




Songbirds may avoid obesity by regulating energy use

https://www.upi.com/Why-songbirds-can-overeat-and-not-get-fat/9401537298139/


Despite access to a seemingly unlimited supply of food, songbirds living near bird feeders don't appear to gain weight as a result of overeating. Photo by Pixabay/CC
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« Reply #1923 on: September 20, 2018, 09:02:58 PM »
Newly identified African bird species already in trouble

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919133907.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Mountain Sooty Boubous occupy high-elevation forests in Africa's Albertine Rift region. Related birds occupying mid-elevation forests were recently discovered to be a distinct species.
Credit: J. Engel
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« Reply #1924 on: September 20, 2018, 09:04:47 PM »
Improving 'silvopastures' for bird conservation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180919133910.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


nsect-eating birds such as Black-crowned Antshrikes forage less efficiently in wooded pastures than in natural forest habitat.
Credit: B. Tarbox
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« Reply #1925 on: September 21, 2018, 12:04:55 PM »
Physicists train robotic gliders to soar like birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920101605.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


This is a bird and glider in tandem flight.
Credit: Phil Richardson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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« Reply #1926 on: September 21, 2018, 04:49:47 PM »
Land-based bird populations are at risk of local extinction

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920203241.htm
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« Reply #1927 on: September 21, 2018, 04:53:25 PM »
Hundreds of mummified penguin carcasses which could unlock clues to climate change are found in Antarctica

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6192949/Hundreds-mummified-penguin-carcasses-Antarctica-Australian-scientists.html

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« Reply #1928 on: September 22, 2018, 09:44:11 PM »
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« Reply #1929 on: September 22, 2018, 09:46:01 PM »
Saudi falcons find relief at Abu Dhabi bird hospital

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1375831/offbeat

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« Reply #1930 on: September 24, 2018, 10:37:25 PM »
Article: Sparrows in mining towns Broken Hill and Mount Isa have evolved to avoid lead poisoning, geneticists find

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-24/sparrows-in-australian-mining-towns-have-evolved-to-avoid-lead/10295892


Sparrows from Britain spread to the Broken Hill region about a century ago.
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Abstract: Signs of adaptation to trace metal contamination in a common urban bird

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718334880?via%3Dihub

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« Reply #1931 on: September 25, 2018, 09:40:09 PM »
How the dinosaurs took to the skies: Newly identified 127 million-year-old extinct bird species reveals an important stepping stone between dinosaurs and modern birds

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6201627/127-million-year-old-bird-species-reveals-important-stepping-stone-dinosaurs-birds.html



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« Reply #1932 on: September 27, 2018, 08:52:16 PM »
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« Reply #1934 on: September 27, 2018, 08:54:14 PM »
Red and blue LED lights could be the key to preventing bird strikes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180926140810.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Giving birds a choice test helps researchers determine what kinds of light they tend to avoid.
Credit: Purdue University photo/Gabriela Sincich
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