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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Weekly bird news roundup (Aug. 27)
Bird feeder/nesting box used to make people drive slower A man, who is a lover of birds and appreciator of speed limits, has created a contraption that feeds birds and makes people go the speed limit, according to the Daily Mail. The 63-year-old man from the U.K. built a bird feeder to look exactly like [...]
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Profile of the Roseate Spoonbill
While looking at some of my favorite birding blogs, I came across a post about the Roseate Spoonbill, a fantastically beautiful bird found in Florida and Central American. If you’ve never seen one of these birds, you’d be amazed. The Roseate Spoonbill is a large wading bird with colors similar to the recognizable pink hue [...]
Bird feeder arrested for increasing airport bird strikes
In a story reminiscent of the news about Craig Brown, a man in California was arrested for feeding pigeons next to an airport, according to Glendale News-Press. Before you get too upset at this seemingly outrageous incident, the 59-year-old businessman was repeatedly told to stop feeding birds at his roofing company near the Burbank airport [...]
Weekly bird news roundup (Aug. 19)
Here is the news of the week we couldn’t cover in more detail. Migrant bird populations are significantly declining in Britain Britain is noticing the disappearance of many migrant bird species, including cuckoos, willow tits, turtle doves and many others, according to Metro. Although they are not 100 percent sure of the causes, scientists attribute [...]
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Pairs of male Zebra Finches form bonds as strong as opposite-sex pairs
For male Zebra Finches, it seems as though a “bro-mance” is sometimes more important than a relationship with the opposite sex. A new study from the University of Berkeley found that when male Zebra Finches grow up with other males, they form powerful bonds that last a lifetime. As they grew older together, the males [...]
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Weekly bird news roundup (Aug. 14)
The big bird news from the week of August 13. Giant birds roamed the Earth during the age of dinosaurs Even though scientists knew there were a number of huge birds when there were dinosaurs, they had no idea it was this many. According to new findings, massive birds were more common than previously expected. [...]
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Bullied baby boobies become bullies too
Juvenile boobies are likely to become bullies if they are bullied by older birds while nesting, researchers from Wake Forest University found. The researchers studied the behavior of Nazca boobies in South America and found that chicks mistreated by older birds when their parents left would also grow up to be violent toward young birds. [...]
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Weekly bird news roundup (Aug. 7)
This is the big news about birds from the week. Peacock escapes Central Park Zoo In yet another case of animals getting out of their exhibits at the zoo, a peacock managed to roam around New York City after escaping the Central Park Zoo, according to the NY Daily News. The large bird spent a [...]
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Extraordinarily rare seagull makes appearance at Coney Island
Everyone knows New York City is a place where people from around the world visit, but there is one foreign visitor that has locals in a flutter: a seagull. This is no ordinary seagull though. This is a gray-hooded gull. In its native habitat of either South America or Africa, the gray-hooded gull is not [...]
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