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« Reply #2535 on: September 15, 2019, 04:50:15 PM »
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« Reply #2536 on: September 15, 2019, 04:57:37 PM »
The Secret Lives of Swallow-tailed Kites

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-secret-lives-swallow-tailed-kites?emci=4c7f245b-9dd5-e911-bcd0-2818784d4349&emdi=16ffd39d-3ed6-e911-bcd0-2818784d4349&ceid=7455&ms=digital-eng-email-ea-x-engagement_20190913_eng-burst-swallow-tailed-kite_medium&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=engagement_20190913_eng-burst-swallow-tailed-kite&utm_content=medium


A male Swallow-tailed Kite delivers a meal to its hungry offspring atop a loblolly pine in Williston, Florida. Adults primarily eat insects, but they capture frogs, like the one in this father's beak, as well as lizards, snakes, and nestling birds for their young. The chicks, now 20 days old, will fledge in about two weeks. Photo: Mac Stone


Before attaching a transmitter to the kite, they weigh and measure the bird (top). Gina Kent adjusts the harness of a solar-powered GSM/GPS transmitter (bottom), which can relay the bird's location for years. Photos: Mac Stone
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« Reply #2537 on: September 15, 2019, 04:59:29 PM »
'Walking dead': The toxic supermarket product killing Aussie wildlife

https://au.news.yahoo.com/supermarkets-bunnings-selling-ratbait-killing-aussie-wildlife-004800636.html

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« Reply #2538 on: September 15, 2019, 05:19:05 PM »
5th Straight Year of Alaska Seabird Die-Offs Blamed on Starvation Linked to Climate Change

https://weather.com/science/nature/news/2019-09-12-alaska-seabirds-dying-starvation


Short-tailed shearwaters, one of the most abundant seabirds in Alaska, were the most common victims of a recent bird die-off.
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Like canaries in a coal mine: Local bird banding efforts gage health of the environment

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-bird-banding-st-0916-20190913-v27ep6tpc5ad7chnifltkrkely-story.html


A naturalist places an aluminum band on a red-headed woodpecker during a bird banding event at Sagawau Environmental Learning Center in Lemont. The effort is a way to help gage the health of the overall environment. (Leslie DeCourcey photo / HANDOUT)
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A forest in the Western Ghats is helping scientists understand how malaria spreads in birds

https://scroll.in/article/937092/a-forest-in-the-western-ghats-is-helping-scientists-understand-how-malaria-spreads-in-birds

Abstract: Geographical and host species barriers differentially affect generalist and specialist parasite community structure in a tropical sky-island archipelago

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2019.0439


Nilgiri pilpit in the Western Ghats. Latest research on the wild birds in the Shola Sky Islands shows that some malarial parasites are more likely to invade avifauna communities than others. Credit: Prasenjeet Yadav/Mongabay
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Global warming makes it harder for birds to mate, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-global-harder-birds.html

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