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« Reply #2415 on: June 30, 2019, 02:12:03 PM »
Blue color tones in fossilized prehistoric feathers

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190625233707.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Blue colour tones in fossilised prehistoric feathers

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/june/blue-fossilised-feathers-.html


Reconstruction of Eocoracias brachyptera with hypothesised plumage colouration. Reconstruction by Marta Zaher, PhD at the University of Bristol.


Eocoracias brachyptera fossil sample used for this study. The rich black texture on the surface is fossilised plumage of the bird. Fossil is stored at Senckenberg Research Institute. Sven Traenkner, photographer at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt.
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« Reply #2416 on: June 30, 2019, 03:08:23 PM »
Winged hunter: swifts enlisted in fight against mosquito swarms

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/winged-hunter-swifts-enlisted-in-fight-against-mosquito-swarms-6559


Efforts are being made to encourage swifts to nest in urban settings.Adam Warżawa/PAP


Bird boxes in Warsaw. Across the country cities are trying to revitalise urban bird populations by laying on accommodation.Kalbar/TFN
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« Reply #2417 on: June 30, 2019, 03:10:47 PM »
High Lake Michigan waters complicate botulism monitoring, but mean fewer bird deaths

https://www.michiganradio.org/post/high-lake-michigan-waters-complicate-botulism-monitoring-mean-fewer-bird-deaths


Mary Ellen Newport and a fellow volunteer had to canoe across the Platte River to do their first botulism monitoring walk of the season at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. High water levels complicate monitoring, but mean fewer botulism deaths.
Credit Kaye LaFond / Michigan Radio
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« Reply #2418 on: June 30, 2019, 03:14:02 PM »
Noise pollution affects birds' reproduction and social behaviour

https://www.birdguides.com/articles/noise-pollution-affects-birds-reproduction-and-social-behaviour/

Abstract: Signal complexity communicates aggressive intent during contests, but the process is disrupted by noise

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0841


The study found that noise pollution interfered with the communication of European Robins (Martin Webb).
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« Reply #2419 on: July 02, 2019, 02:59:44 PM »
Lead Ammunition is Now Banned for Hunting Wildlife in California

https://www.kqed.org/science/1944241/lead-ammunition-is-now-banned-for-hunting-wildlife-in-california


Endangered California condors are among the wildlife at risk from eating lead bullets in carrion.  (Tim Huntington, courtesy of the Ventana Wildlife Society)
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« Reply #2421 on: July 05, 2019, 06:11:59 PM »
Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190701144652.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Ecosystems in the U.S. are moving hundreds of miles north

https://www.earth.com/news/ecosystems-moving-north/

Great Plains' Ecosystems Have Shifted 365 Miles Northward Since 1970

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-plains-ecosystems-have-shifted-365-miles-northward-since-1970

Editorial: New UNL study of bird ecosystems sheds light on climate change

https://www.omaha.com/opinion/editorial-new-unl-study-of-bird-ecosystems-sheds-light-on/article_24dc724b-c7ca-5420-9540-ed47820a92d6.html




A data-backed illustration of three ecosystems (orange, yellow, blue) shifting northward across a swath of the Great Plains, with a fourth ecosystem (pink) emerging in the 2010s University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Nature Climate Change

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Historic First for Mysterious Seabird Achieved with Net Launcher, Perseverance, and Chum

http://www.surfbirds.com/community-blogs/blog/2019/07/04/historic-first-for-mysterious-seabird-achieved-with-net-launcher-perseverance-and-chum/


Black-capped Petrel, copyright Aidan G Kelly, from the surfbirds galleries
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Clark, Tufts researchers question push to eliminate cats to protect wildlife

https://www.telegram.com/news/20190630/clark-tufts-researchers-question-push-to-eliminate-cats-to-protect-wildlife

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« Reply #2427 on: July 08, 2019, 08:49:49 PM »
Global animal tracking system Icarus is switched on

https://phys.org/news/2019-07-global-animal-tracking-icarus.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter


With the global tracking system Icarus, scientists can follow the movements of animals around the globe. Project leader Martin Wikelski is equipping a bright red macaw with an Icarus transmitter weighing only a few grams. Credit: S. Izquierdo
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