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« Reply #2565 on: October 02, 2019, 06:06:32 PM »
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society - Aves Virtual Issue

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/pages/aves_virtual_issue

Abstract examples:

A stem anseriform from the early Palaeocene of Antarctica provides new key evidence in the early evolution of waterfowl

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/3/673/5281199?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Head pneumatic sinuses in Japanese quail and zebra finch

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/3/742/5301506?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Repeated evolution of flightlessness in Dryolimnas rails (Aves: Rallidae) after extinction and recolonization on Aldabra

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/3/666/5487031?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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« Reply #2566 on: October 03, 2019, 12:36:48 PM »
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« Reply #2567 on: October 03, 2019, 12:43:31 PM »
We're Just Starting to Learn How Fracking Harms Wildlife

https://therevelator.org/fracking-wildlife/


Kentucky warblers prefer large core forest habitat and researchers have found they decline in numbers around shale gas development. (Photo by Andrew Weitzel, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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« Reply #2568 on: October 03, 2019, 12:49:03 PM »
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« Reply #2569 on: October 03, 2019, 12:59:22 PM »
Photographers and tourists are disrupting bird behaviour in India by overusing recorded calls

https://scroll.in/article/938726/photographers-and-tourists-are-disrupting-bird-behaviour-in-india-by-overusing-recorded-calls


Using recorded audio bird calls downloaded from the internet or 'call playbacks' for birdwatching has increasingly become a problem in India. Credit: Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay


Ceylon frogmouth in Thattekkad, Kerala. Playback calls to attract birds could affect breeding habits and the social behaviour of birds. Credit: NA Nazeer/Wikimedia Commons
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« Reply #2571 on: October 03, 2019, 01:05:54 PM »
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new breed of goose in Labrador!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/labrador-lesser-goose-1.5295584


Wings submitted for the wing bee give an idea of what birds migrate throughout Labrador. (Alyson Samson/CBC)
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« Reply #2572 on: October 03, 2019, 01:18:50 PM »
Diving birds follow each other when fishing

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

Seabirds copy their neighbors when diving for fish

https://www.earth.com/news/seabirds-copy-diving-fish/

Paper: Social information use and collective foraging in a pursuit diving seabird

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0222600


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« Reply #2573 on: October 03, 2019, 05:01:57 PM »
Online tool helps guide wildlife repopulation efforts

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/online-tool-helps-guide-wildlife-repopulation-efforts


Eighty percent of red-tailed hawks do not survive beyond their first year of life. If wildlife managers release only juvenile hawks into the wild, most of those carefully reared birds would die before reproducing. The StaPOPd software can help scientists avoid these kinds of issues.
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« Reply #2574 on: October 04, 2019, 01:31:25 PM »
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After 50-year conservation effort, songbird flies off U.S. endangered species list

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/after-50-year-conservation-effort-songbird-flies-us-endangered-species-list

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Kirtland's Warbler From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/09/2019-22096/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-removing-the-kirtlands-warbler-from-the-federal-list?utm_source=federalregister.gov&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list


A male Kirtland's warbler sings its song.
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New 'iron dragon' pterosaur found in Australia

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/new-iron-dragon-pterosaur-found-australia/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20191009&rid=5DFCB8A357462614CEB0AA39E8AF8E74


With wings spanning some 13 feet across, Ferrodraco lentoni took to the skies roughly 96 million years ago, as shown here in an illustration.
Illustration by Travis R. Tischler
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Exterminating mice with poison would protect rare seabirds on Farallones, study says

https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/Exterminating-mice-would-protect-rare-sea-birds-14494371.php

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