Scientists find state record 87 eggs in largest python from Everglades
Iridescence found in 40-million-year-old fossil bird feather
Known for their wide variety of vibrant plumage, birds have evolved various chemical and physical mechanisms to produce these beautiful colors over millions of years. A team of paleontologists and ornithologists ...
Aug 26, 2009
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Parrots do tricks without looking
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ornithologists at the University of Birmingham have discovered that parrots cannot see what they are doing when they carry out the tricky manipulations of objects, for which they are renowned. ...
Apr 29, 2011
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Kingfisher sets European migration record
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kingfisher caught and released by members of the Landguard Bird Observatory at the British National Trust's Orford Ness reserve, appears to have migrated all the way from Gdansk, Poland, ...
Oct 26, 2011
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Stopping the loss of biodiversity
Long-extinct passenger pigeon finds a place in the family tree
With bits of DNA extracted from century-old museum specimens, researchers have found a place for the extinct passenger pigeon in the family tree of pigeons and doves, identifying for the first time this unique ...
Oct 06, 2010
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New frogs and geckos and pigeons, oh my
Finding a new animal species is a special moment for scientists and even better when one hops into their mountain camp and volunteers to be discovered.
May 17, 2010
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Sandy blows in rare birds (and brings out the birders)
(Phys.org)—Now's the time for birders who want to add to their life lists, says Dan Cristol, an ornithologist at William & Mary.
Nov 02, 2012
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Bird rest stops to be tracked by NASA rain radar
(Phys.org) -- At sunset on a spring night, tree-dwelling songbirds take off in a flurry of wings from the lower Delmarva Peninsula near Oyster, Va. The peninsula is a temporary home to hundreds of species ...
Jun 08, 2012
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Birds may spread, not halt, fever-bearing ticks
Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native guineafowl to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. Yet research suggests guineafowl eat few ticks, but carry the parasites ...
Nov 30, 2012
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Across the Atlantic on flotsam: New fossil findings shed light on the origins of the mysterious bird Hoatzin
A team comprising German, Brazilian and French scientists, including an ornithologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt, has examined fossil relatives of the South American Hoatzin (Opisthocomus ...
Oct 04, 2011
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Power lines a major risk for migratory birds
When flamingos, storks, pelicans and other migratory birds undertake their long seasonal flights, they risk their lives winging their way through the endless power grids that cover the world.
Nov 26, 2011
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4 and 20 blackbirds, and 4,000, dead in the sky
New mass death of birds in Sweden
