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« Reply #2775 on: February 22, 2020, 01:24:40 PM »
Fifty years of data show new changes in bird migration

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141757.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

A climate-sensitive bird hints at global warming's lasting impact

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tiny-songbirds-big-consequences-why-ornithologists-see-climate-change-looming-n1140716?cid=eml_nbn_20200222

Paper: Seasonally specific changes in migration phenology across 50 years in the Black-throated Blue Warbler

https://academic.oup.com/auk/advance-article/doi/10.1093/auk/ukz080/5740120


A black-throated blue warbler.Kyle Horton


Geographic distribution of Black-throated Blue Warblers. Gray shaded areas indicate the breeding, migration, and wintering ranges from BirdLife International (BirdLife-International 2016). Hexagons colored by the log of the total number of captures between 1966 and 2015 during spring and fall migration.
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« Reply #2776 on: March 11, 2020, 05:11:56 PM »
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« Reply #2777 on: March 13, 2020, 04:27:26 PM »
Wind Wildlife Research Fund Research Projects

https://awwi.org/wind-wildlife-research-fund/projects/
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« Reply #2778 on: March 17, 2020, 01:30:22 PM »
Why Birds Are the World's Best Engineers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/why-birds-are-the-worlds-best-engineers.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Paper: Mechanics of randomly packed filaments--The "bird nest" as meta-material

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5132809


(a) Grains jammed by multiple boundaries under gravity in a grain silo.44 (b) A structure jammed solely by the bottom wall and gravity made up of Z-form shapes.45 Reproduced with permission from Murphy et al. Archit. Des. 87, 74?81 (2017). Copyright 2017 John Wiley and Sons. (c) A bird's nest stable without any external forcing or boundaries. Poquillon et al., J. Mater. Res. 40, 5963?5970 (2005). Copyright 2005 Cambridge. (d) A piece of cotton fiber stable without any external forcing or boundaries. Copyright 2008 licensed under a Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 License.4


Sticks in a cylindrical experiment at the Goodyear Polymer Center at the University of Akron in Ohio, where Hunter King investigates the engineering of birds nests.
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« Reply #2779 on: March 31, 2020, 04:46:28 PM »
Fossils Show Raptors Prowled North America Late in Dinosaurs' Era

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/science/raptor-fossil-dinosaurs.html?campaign_id=34&emc=edit_sc_20200331&instance_id=17208&nl=science-times&regi_id=75212545&segment_id=23391&te=1&user_id=5dfcb8a357462614ceb0aa39e8af8e74

New Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from New Mexico and Biodiversity of Dromaeosaurids at the end of the Cretaceous

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61480-7


An artist's reconstruction of Dineobellator notohesperus, and other Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Ojo Alamo Formation in New Mexico.Credit Sergey Krasovskiy
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Papers

Effects of a regenerating matrix on the survival of birds in tropical forest fragments

https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-020-00193-x

Whole genome phylogeny of Gallus: introgression and data-type effects

https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-020-00194-w

Geolocator study reveals east African migration route of Central European Common Terns

https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-020-00191-z

Foraging habitat selection of overwintering Black-necked Cranes in the farming area surrounding the Caohai Wetland, Guizhou Province, China

https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-020-00192-y
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