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« Reply #6285 on: January 10, 2018, 01:58:58 PM »
Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/09/some-birds-are-so-stressed-by-noise-pollution-it-looks-like-they-have-ptsd/?utm_term=.77a79b6eafca&wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1

Abstract: Chronic anthropogenic noise disrupts glucocorticoid signaling and has multiple effects on fitness in an avian community

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/03/1709200115

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« Reply #6286 on: January 12, 2018, 01:54:15 PM »
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« Reply #6293 on: January 12, 2018, 02:41:04 PM »
Quote from: T40cfr403 on March 03, 2016, 05:06:39 PM
Quote from: T40cfr403 on February 09, 2016, 07:16:38 PM
Birds of prey are starting fires DELIBERATELY: Kites and falcons are 'intentionally dropping smouldering twigs' to smoke out mice and insects in Australia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3439042/Birds-prey-starting-fires-DELIBERATELY-Brown-falcon-dropped-smouldering-twigs-Australian-bush-smoke-mice-insects-say-researchers.html



More information about how raptors adapt to and benefit from fires. Bonus item on why no squirrel is safe.

Raptors Are Avian Arsonists

http://daily.jstor.org/raptors-are-avian-arsonists/?utm_source=internalhouse&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_03032016&cid=eml_j_jstordaily_dailylist_03032016



More info (also see article posted 1/8/18):

Firehawks: In Australia, birds of prey are intentionally setting the forests on fire

https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/arsonist-birds-hawk-11012018/




Why These Birds Carry Flames In Their Beaks

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/wildfires-birds-animals-australia/

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« Reply #6296 on: January 12, 2018, 02:48:49 PM »
Golden eagle lands on Ton Pentre woman's windowsill

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-42618159

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« Reply #6297 on: January 12, 2018, 03:47:29 PM »
Owls Dying Near Marijuana Farms (Here's Why)

https://www.livescience.com/61403-marijuana-farms-dying-owls.html




Paper: Exposure to rodenticides in Northern Spotted and Barred Owls on remote forest lands in northwestern California: evidence of food web contamination

https://www.ace-eco.org/vol13/iss1/art2/
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« Reply #6299 on: January 12, 2018, 04:05:04 PM »
It's a birdlife gym, but not as we know it (cute story)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/100469055/its-a-birdlife-gym-but-not-as-we-know-it

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