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T40cfr403:
Climate crisis pushes albatross ‘divorce’ rates higher – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/24/climate-crisis-pushes-albatross-divorce-rates-higher-study
Environmental variability directly affects the prevalence of divorce in monogamous albatrosses
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2112
Researchers say climate change and warming waters are causing more black-browed albatross couples to break up. Photograph: Andy Rouse/PA
T40cfr403:
Which birds are the biggest jerks at the feeder? A massive data analysis reveals the answer. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/28/bird-feeder-pecking-order/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3564443%2F61a3b7759d2fdab56ba5ed9a%2F59727645ae7e8a1cf4a94170%2F31%2F72%2F61a3b7759d2fdab56ba5ed9a
Project FeederWatch: https://feederwatch.org/
Paper: Fighting over food unites the birds of North America in a continental dominance hierarchy - https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/28/6/1454/4091427
T40cfr403:
Birds and plastic pollution: recent advances
https://avianres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40657-021-00293-2
The cycling process of macroplastics and microplastics in different ecosystems (red arrow) and potential uptake ways by birds from different ecological groups (orange arrow)
T40cfr403:
Pet Cats Are Spreading a Brain Parasite to Wildlife, New Research Suggests
https://gizmodo.com/pet-cats-are-spreading-a-brain-parasite-to-wildlife-ne-1848039634
Human density is associated with the increased prevalence of a generalist zoonotic parasite in mammalian wildlife
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2021.1724
T40cfr403:
Engineers create perching bird-like robot
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211201145322.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Bird-inspired dynamic grasping and perching in arboreal environments
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abj7562
(C) Inspired by peregrine falcons, we demonstrate that SNAG can also grasp a dynamic prey-like object in flight and carry it along (peregrine photo courtesy of George Roderick).
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