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Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like humans
Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...
How vulnerable might humans be to bird flu? Scientists see hope in existing immunity
Very few humans have gone up against bird flu. But we've all dealt with seasonal flu for years. Some of our immune systems ...
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Murphy the bald eagle, Missouri bird famous for parenting a rock, has died at 33
Murphy leaves behind two eagles and a rock he raised as his own. The World Bird Sanctuary said it found him dead of a head ...
Bird science has a bro-bias
“People tend to have an unconscious bias towards male birds, and that’s often because they’re brighter and easier to identify ...
Alone at Sea for 95 Days, a Peruvian Fisherman Clung to Hope
Máximo Napa Castro, 61, was spotted by the crew of an Ecuadorean tuna boat after he set out from the Peruvian port of Marcona ...
University of Colorado Boulder2d
Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were ...
From the early days of the Kumeyaay to people living in San Diego today, the river has ‘many stories’ to tell
The artists toiling away in their studios and workspaces, and the environmental advocates encouraging others to join their ...
Scientific American6d
Birds Are in Trouble across the U.S. But It’s Not Too Late to Protect Them
In the U.S. 42 species of birds have low and steeply declining populations that put them on the brink of disaster, scientists ...
Crozet Gazette9d
Why Crozet: Hope, Whimsy, and Optimism Work Magic
Magic is a hallmark of Wheeles’ work and her life. She’s an artist, a writer, a healer and a software project manager, ...
Science Daily10d
Nearly half of popular tropical plant group related to birds-of-paradise and bananas are threatened with extinction
Their reproductive structures are composed of waxy, elongated leaves called bracts. Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise ... and promoting responsible tourism, ...
Harvard Medical School12d
Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak?
Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife ...
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Loon-like Waterfowl from Dino-Era Antarctica Is Oldest ‘Modern’ Bird
A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai dives for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula in this illustration released Feb. 5. Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a ...