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Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2024

During the 2024 eclipse, biologists want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day

The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, coincides with an exciting time for wild birds. Local birds are singing for mates and fighting for territories as they gear up for their once-a-year chance to breed.

Plants & Animals Apr 4, 2024

Amphibians use scream inaudible to humans for self-defense against predators, study suggests

A study reported in the journal acta ethologica has recorded the use of ultrasound by amphibians for the first time in South America. It also describes the first documented case of the use of ultrasound for defense against ...

Plants & Animals Apr 1, 2024

Machine learning provides a new picture of the great gray owl

The great gray owl has long been thought of as a sentinel of the Alaska wilderness, keeping watch over snow-laden forests as far north as the Brooks Range, well away from human populations.

Plants & Animals Mar 28, 2024

Plan to shoot thousands of West Coast owls ignites protest

A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups.

Ecology Mar 26, 2024

New York City owl Flaco was exposed to pigeon virus and rat poison before death, tests show

New York City's celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo said Monday.

Plants & Animals Mar 21, 2024

The outpouring of grief in New York over Flaco the owl's death

There has been an outpouring of grief in New York City ever since the beloved Eurasian eagle-owl Flaco died on Feb. 23, 2024, after striking a building. In 2023, after escaping from Central Park Zoo, Flaco survived for over ...

Plants & Animals Mar 19, 2024

Q&A: Celebrity owl Flaco's recent death in NYC highlights how bird strikes with buildings are strikingly common

The recent death of Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl who escaped from New York City's famed Central Park Zoo last year, brought new attention to the issue of bird strikes: Experts estimate that roughly a billion birds die in the ...

Plants & Animals Mar 6, 2024

From Texas to Tennessee: Burrowing owl makes odd migration, draws attention

Birds migrating from north to south are a given, but migrating from the southwest to the southeast is a little rarer. A burrowing owl is overwintering on a Tennessee River peninsula near New Johnsonville, Tennessee, marking ...

Ecology Mar 5, 2024

How bias shows up in maps made with citizen science data

When biologist Elizabeth Carlen pulled up in her 2007 Subaru for her first look around St. Louis, she was already checking for the squirrels. Arriving as a newcomer from New York City, Carlen had scrolled through maps and ...

Plants & Animals Mar 5, 2024

'Flying tigers' come to a university's live bird cams project

A new feathered face has just popped up in front of the live cameras hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird Cams project.

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