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Fall Brings Migratory Birds Across US Waterways
2017-06-19 11:55:29| A1AWEB Internet Advertising, Website Creation, Marketing, Promotion, SEO
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Study suggests that longer-distance migratory birds may be smarter
2016-02-24 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Birds that migrate the greatest distances have more new neurons in the regions of the brain responsible for navigation and spatial orientation, suggests a new paper published in Scientific Reports. For some time scholars have widely accepted the view that neurons, the cells that specialise in processing and transmitting information and contribute to brain plasticity, continue to be generated in the brains of animals even when they are adults. After being create…
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Climate change clips wings of migratory birds: ornithologist
2015-10-11 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: It takes the dexterity of a lacemaker to remove the tiny bird caught in nets strung between pine trees on Poland's Baltic coast, a veritable paradise for dozens of migratory species. Polish ornithologist Jaroslaw Nowakowski delicately unravels the Goldcrest, among Europe's smallest bird species, placing it inside a muslin bag before moving it to a make-shift laboratory in a tent for measuring and tagging with rings. The hulking professor says studies by the University of Gdansk over the last...
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Climate change a threat to migratory birds, wildlife group says
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
McClatchy: Climate change is altering and destroying important habitats that America's migratory birds depend on, the National Wildlife Federation said Tuesday in a report. The environmental organization warns that a warming climate might lead to declines and even extinctions in some bird populations, and it calls on Congress and the president to curb carbon pollution and adopt what it calls "climate-smart conservation strategies." "We need urgent action at the local, state and federal levels to cut carbon...
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Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change
2013-06-20 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished. Puffins are also having trouble feeding their chicks, which weigh less than previous broods. When the parents leave the chicks to fend for themselves, the young birds are failing to find food, and hundreds are washing up dead on the Atlantic coast. ...