The study, by researchers at the universities of Sheffield and Exeter, suggests that killing birds is just a small part of the problem cats cause our feathered friends.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 27, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Ultraviolet vision evolved at least eight times in birds from a common violet sensitive ancestor finds a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. All of these are due to single nucleo ...

Biology - Evolution

Feb 10, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Microsoft Security Essentials failed another certification test by independent testing lab, AV-Test Institute. The group publishes test results every two months. Microsoft Security Essentials ...

Technology - Software

Jan 18, 2013 3.5 / 5 (6) 5 |

(Phys.org)—Animals have developed a variety of strategies for dealing with increasing noise pollution in their habitats. It is known, for example, that many urban birds sing at a high pitch to differentiate ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 11, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

Do birds change their tune in response to urban noise? It depends on the bird species, according to Dr. Alejandro Ariel Ríos-Chelén from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and colleagues. Their work shows that ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

A bizarre spate of young blackbird deaths at a school in England was likely caused by the feathered teens getting drunk on fermented berries, crashing mid-air and falling from the sky, according to vets.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 03, 2012 3.5 / 5 (4) 0

(Phys.org) -- This month’s news-making word in wind-powered vehicle experiments is “upwind.” Blackbird, a wind powered cart, has shown it can travel upwind at more than twice the speed of ci ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jul 12, 2012 5 / 5 (10) 8 |

Sparrows, blackbirds and the great tit are all birds known to sing at a higher pitch (frequency) in urban environments. It was previously believed that these birds sang at higher frequencies in order to escape the lower frequencies ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 22, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Populations of the rusty blackbird, a once-abundant North American species, have declined drastically in recent years, and Auburn University researchers say climate change is to blame.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

On the surface, Canal Creek looks like a postcard Chesapeake Bay tributary, with red-winged blackbirds swooping over the tidal marsh lining its banks.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 10, 2011 not rated yet 0

Roughly 5,000 dead and dying blackbirds fell from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. That mysterious event was followed by the appearance of about 500 dead birds along a Louisiana highway and additional bird-falls in Kentucky, ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 11, 2011 4.5 / 5 (4) 3

The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved, federal scientists say.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 07, 2011 3.4 / 5 (18) 27

(AP) -- First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 06, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 0

Our ability to conserve and protect wildlife is at risk because we are unable to accurately gauge how our environment is changing over time, says new research out today in Conservation Letters.

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