Hearing longer love songs from songbirds in your backyard? Chalk it up to sexual preference—and high standards.
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2019
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When driving across country, people can only make it so far before stopping off to rest. Likewise, most migratory songbirds must make stops during their long-distance journeys to sleep along the way. Now, researchers have ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2019
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Many of North America's migratory songbirds, which undertake awe-inspiring journeys twice a year, are declining at alarming rates. For conservation efforts to succeed, wildlife managers need to know where they go and what ...
Ecology
Jun 19, 2019
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A study by Ph.D. student Hanna Nyborg Støstad has investigated the peculiar spiral shape of songbird sperm. Støstad compared sperm cells of 36 bird species including house sparrows and tree swallows, and found that species ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2019
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Birds-of-paradise are a group of songbird species, and are known for their magnificent male plumage and bewildering sexual display. Now, an international collaborative study involving the University of Vienna, Zhejiang University ...
Evolution
Apr 2, 2019
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Both sexes of a songbird called the blue-capped cordon-bleu intensify courtship performances that involve singing and dancing in the presence of an audience, especially if it is a member of the opposite sex, an international ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2018
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Songbirds can acquire new abilities both through observation and through trial and error. However, skills acquired with the latter method are more easily adapted to new situations, as scientists at ETH and the University ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2018
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With the arrival of spring, we look forward to the return of hundreds of species of migratory songbirds from their wintering grounds.
Ecology
May 9, 2018
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A new study shows that when feather replacement and parental care overlap in time, migratory songbirds make a striking trade-off; they desert their offspring, leaving their mates to provide all remaining parental care.
Ecology
Apr 19, 2018
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The tools ornithologists use to track the journeys of migrating birds provide invaluable insights that can help halt the declines of vulnerable species. However, a new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2017
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