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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10050 on: March 13, 2020, 08:44:15 PM »

Not in the news, but wanted to share photo of the two new 2020 hatch cuties in my neighborhood.

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10051 on: March 17, 2020, 01:31:27 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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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10052 on: March 17, 2020, 05:22:58 PM »

Bird brawn: Seriously buff falcon looks like it has been spending time in the gym ;D

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8096553/Seriously-buff-falcon-looks-like-spending-time-gym.html

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« Reply #10053 on: March 17, 2020, 05:25:14 PM »

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10054 on: March 17, 2020, 05:27:26 PM »

The Harpy Eagle Stands As Tall As a Child With Talons Longer Than a Grown Grizzly Bear's Claws

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-harpy-eagle-stands-as-tall-as-a-child-with-talons-longer-than-a-grown-grizzly-bears-claws_3209820.html

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10055 on: March 19, 2020, 07:00:10 PM »

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10056 on: March 20, 2020, 10:50:25 AM »

Trout Run Trail will be closed for six days for a bank stabilization and fish habitat project

https://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2020/03/24789.html

Quote: "The trail section with the bald eagle nest is not included in the tree clearing project."

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« Reply #10057 on: March 20, 2020, 02:13:29 PM »

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« Reply #10058 on: March 24, 2020, 07:38:26 PM »

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Re: Birds in the News
« Reply #10059 on: April 02, 2020, 05:34:49 PM »

Two eaglets have hatched at the Decorah North nest

https://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2020/04/24906.html

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« Reply #10060 on: April 05, 2020, 01:04:54 PM »

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« Reply #10061 on: April 05, 2020, 01:19:51 PM »

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« Reply #10062 on: April 08, 2020, 06:31:25 PM »

Two more eaglets have hatched in Decorah

https://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2020/04/24964.html


Photo of D34 and D35 courtesy of Raptor Resource Project.

The third egg has pipped at the Decorah Hatchery nest

https://www.decorahnews.com/news-stories/2020/04/24976.html


The third egg (D36) at the Decorah Hatchery nest (Image courtesy of the Raptor Resource Project)
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« Reply #10063 on: April 08, 2020, 06:47:42 PM »

Bird drops catfish on North Carolina driver's automotive, shattering windshield

https://gruntstuff.com/bird-drops-catfish-on-north-carolina-drivers-automotive-shattering-windshield/26191/

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« Reply #10064 on: April 08, 2020, 06:51:11 PM »

Zoo-bred Bald Eagle Thriving In The Wild

https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/zoo-bred-bald-eagle-thriving-wild


The red wing tags identify this eagle as having hatched at San Francisco Zoo. (Breana Schmidt via San Francisco Zoo (written permission))
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