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Not Neato: New Zealand’s Keas Endangered, with Only 5,000 in The Wild
Posted in birds, Nature, NOT neato
Tagged birds, endangered, endangered species, kea, New Zealand
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Not Neato – Noise Contributes to Baby Bird Deaths
Not neato, but good work by scientists for figuring it out. A group of scientists have now shown that “Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness.” Julia Schroeder of the University of Sheffield, UK, and colleagues write in their … Continue reading
Posted in Life, NOT neato, science
Tagged BBC, birds, environment, PLoS ONE, science
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Fine Feather of a Personality
BBC writer Michelle Warwicker reports on science published in the journal Animal Behavior, in which Leah J. Williams of Liverpool John Moores University and colleagues “hypothesize that discrete colour polymorphism can reflect personality… in a social bird, the Gouldian finch.” … Continue reading
Posted in beautiful, brilliant, Life, science
Tagged Animal Behavior, BBC, behavior, birds, color, colour, feathers, finches, Gouldian finch, Leah J. Williams, Liverpool John Moores University, Michelle Warwicker, personality
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