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« Reply #2730 on: January 20, 2020, 03:06:24 PM »
Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15012020/seabird-death-ocean-heat-wave-blob-pacific-alaska-common-murre

'The blob,' food supply squeeze to blame for largest seabird die-off

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200115140502.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Pacific 'blob' heatwave feared to have killed a million birds

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51140869

Paper: Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226087


Numbers of dead or moribund common murres observed on beaches that were surveyed systematically (gold circles; ~monthly) and with opportunistic beach surveys and rehab captures (red circles). Areas in which zero dead murres were encountered during surveys are indicated by white circles. All remaining coastlines (without any circles) were not surveyed. Note the California Current System is divided roughly into 3 sections: north (nCCS), central (cCCs) and south (sCCS).
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« Reply #2731 on: January 20, 2020, 03:08:15 PM »
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« Reply #2732 on: January 20, 2020, 03:15:37 PM »
The Secret of This Puffin's Big Beak

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/the-secret-of-this-puffins-big-beak/?utm_source=Hakai+Magazine+Weekly&utm_campaign=484de1db86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_06_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0fc1967411-484de1db86-121598265

Abstract: Huffin' and puffin: seabirds use large bills to dissipate heat from energetically demanding flight

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/21/jeb212563


Unlike a certain world leader, the tufted puffin only sports its bright yellow crests during the breeding season. Photo by Otto Plantema/Buiten-Beeld/Minden Pictures
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« Reply #2734 on: January 20, 2020, 05:01:16 PM »
Endangered Lord Howe Island woodhens released from captivity after rodent eradication program

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-18/lord-howe-woodhens-returned-to-island-after-rodent-eradication/11869230


The Lord Howe Island woodhen is found only on the island, and each individual is monitored.
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« Reply #2735 on: January 20, 2020, 05:15:45 PM »
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a PigeonBot! Unusual bird-like robot built by scientists has 40 feathers and 'paves the way for nimble flying machines of the future'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7895757/Unusual-PigeonBot-robot-flies-thanks-40-bird-feathers.html


The researchers studied the skeletal structure of the wings of a pigeon cadaver and developed a computer model of the bird's wing motion
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« Reply #2736 on: January 21, 2020, 03:48:48 PM »
New feathered dinosaur shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200115164005.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

'Dancing dragon' feathered dinosaur fossil discovered in China

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/world/new-dinosaur-bird-discovery-scn-trnd/index.html

Abstract: A new microraptorine theropod from the Jehol Biota and growth in early dromaeosaurids

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ar.24343


An artist rendering of what Wulong bohaiensis might have looked like.
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« Reply #2737 on: January 25, 2020, 02:31:02 PM »
Limitations, lack of standardization, and recommended best practices in studies of renewable energy effects on birds and bats

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.13457

Wind turbine noise limits propagation of greater prairie‐chicken boom chorus, but does it matter?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eth.12940

Advanced Collision Detection and Site Monitoring for Avian and Bat Species for Offshore Wind Energy

https://www.nationalwind.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1_OregonState.pdf

A Multi-Sensor Approach for Measuring Bird and Bat Collisions with Offshore Wind Turbines

https://www.nationalwind.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2-WEST.pdf

ThermalTracker-3D

https://www.nationalwind.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/3-ThermalTracker.pdf
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Agrovoltaic cells can help calm the fear of renewable energy sources for Iowa farmers

https://themediatimes.com/agrovoltaic-cells-can-help-calm-the-fear-of-renewable-energy-sources-for-iowa-farmers/

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« Reply #2740 on: January 25, 2020, 04:22:14 PM »
Pesticide testing is flawed--and it's harming our birds and bees

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/pesticide-regulation-not-good-enough/

Abstract: Overhaul environmental risk assessment for pesticides

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6476/360

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New H5N6 bird flu hits swans in China's Xinjiang: ministry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/h5n6-bird-flu-hits-swans-090134955.html
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« Reply #2744 on: January 27, 2020, 03:35:36 PM »
These birds 'retweet' alarm calls--but are careful about spreading rumors

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/01/nuthatches-chickadees-communication-danger/

Paper: Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14414-w


Red-breasted nuthatches (pictured, a bird in Washington State) can be seen clinging to tree trunks, searching the bark for insects.
Photograph by Vickie Anderson, Nat Geo Image Collection
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