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« Reply #2460 on: August 01, 2019, 02:34:23 PM »
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« Reply #2461 on: August 01, 2019, 02:42:49 PM »
Barn owls may hold key to navigation and location

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ps-bom073119.php


This is a split-gated transistor for mimicking the neurobiological algorithm that mimics sound localization in barn owls.
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« Reply #2462 on: August 01, 2019, 02:51:29 PM »
Fish, Birds, a Few Fossils, and Other Things We're Reading About

https://eos.org/articles/fish-birds-a-few-fossils-and-other-things-were-reading-about


Black rosy-finches like these beauties may emerge as the new "canaries in the coal min" of alpine climate change. Credit: InAweofGod'sCreation, courtesy Flickr; CC BY 2.0
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« Reply #2463 on: August 01, 2019, 03:07:17 PM »
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Many Animals Can't Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change

https://www.wired.com/story/many-animals-arent-adapting-fast-enough-to-survive-climate-change/?bxid=5cec276c2ddf9c4e32e7d3dd&cndid=52131893&esrc=Wired_etl_load&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_072419&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily

Paper: Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10924-4#Fig3





Trait changes in response to temperature. For each study in the phenotypic responses to climate with selection (PRCS) dataset, the changes in morphological traits are shown in grey and the changes in phenological traits are shown in black. Each study is identified by the publication identity, the trait and the species. Studies are sorted by trait category (black: phenological; grey: morphological), and within it by species, trait name and publication identity. Overall, phenological traits in both the PRCS dataset (black) and the PRC dataset (dark blue) were negatively affected by temperature. Morphological traits were not associated with temperature in the PRCS (grey) and showed a tendency to a negative association with temperature in the PRC dataset (cyan). In the PRC dataset there was significant variation among taxa in the effect of temperature on phenological (blue) traits, and a tendency to such variation for morphological traits (cyan). See Fig. 2 for legend details. The majority of the species pictures were taken from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/images/). The exceptions are a picture of red-billed gull (credit: co-author J.A.M.) and four pictures taken from Macaulay library (https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/). Illustration credits for pictures taken from Macaulay library: great reed warbler--Peter Kennerley/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML30060261), European pied flycatcher--Suzanne Labb?/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML30638911), song sparrow--Steven Mlodinow/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML47325951) and Eurasian scops owl--Jon Lowes/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML103371221). Source data are provided as a Source Data file

More info: Adapting to climate change

https://www.thestatesman.com/supplements/science_supplements/adapting-climate-change-1502783933.html

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« Reply #2464 on: August 01, 2019, 03:08:50 PM »
Clemson researchers take pioneering trek to track endangered 'little devil'

https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-researchers-take-pioneering-trek-to-track-endangered-little-devil/


Pictured is a black-capped petrel, captured and released with a satellite tag. Scientists hope that by tracking these rare, poorly known birds, they will locate new nesting areas they can target for conservation.
Image Credit: Daniel Lebbin/American Bird Conservancy
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« Reply #2465 on: August 03, 2019, 04:55:34 PM »
West Nile virus lingers longer in birds exposed to light pollution

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/west-nile-virus-lingers-longer-in-birds-exposed-to-light-pollution/

Abstract: Light pollution increases West Nile virus competence of a ubiquitous passerine reservoir species

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2019.1051




City lights in the United States. Image courtesy of NASA?s Earth Observatory.
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« Reply #2466 on: August 03, 2019, 04:58:21 PM »
Freshwater is getting neglected when it comes to plastic pollution research

https://www.ehn.org/freshwater-is-getting-neglected-when-it-comes-to-plastic-pollution-research-2639610931.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Abstract: Threats Underestimated in Freshwater Plastic Pollution: Mini-Review

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11270-019-4220-z


 Great kiskadee entangled by a fishing line (Paraná River floodplain, Argentina; Credit C. Machado
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« Reply #2467 on: August 05, 2019, 02:26:11 PM »
Climate change outruns evolution, studies find

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/climate-change-outruns-evolution-study-finds

Abstract: Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species

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« Reply #2468 on: August 05, 2019, 02:34:26 PM »
One site. Five Critically Endangered birds. Here's our plan

https://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/news/one-site-five-critically-endangered-birds-heres-our-plan


Red-headed vultures change their skin colour to communicate emotion Jonathan Eames
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« Reply #2469 on: August 05, 2019, 03:23:13 PM »
Obituary: Jon Hardey, expert on peregrine falcons and other upland birds of prey

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/17815678.obituary-jon-hardey-expert-peregrine-falcons-upland-birds-prey/

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Meet 'Squawkzilla,' the massive prehistoric parrot scientists say terrorized other birds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/07/scientists-just-discovered-prehistoric-parrot-nearly-size-kindergartner/?wpisrc=nl_animalia&wpmm=1

Paper: Evidence for a giant parrot from the EarlyMiocene of New Zealand

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0467


The remains of a parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand. (Brian Choo/AFP/Getty Images)
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Importance of infection of haemosporidia blood parasites during different life history stages for long‐term reproductive fitness of collared flycatchers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jav.02118?af=R

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Effects of body size, sex, parental care and moult strategies on auk diving behaviour outside the breeding season

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jav.02012

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Danger management and the seasonal adjustment of migratory speed by sandpipers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jav.02202?af=R

Revisiting the influence of aggressive interactions on the survival of the first‐laid egg in crested penguins (genus Eudyptes)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jav.02133?af=R

Prey capture and selection throughout the breeding season in a deep‐diving generalist seabird, the thick‐billed murre

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jav.01930?af=R
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