Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...gram originally developed at Cornell for examining bird sounds, and which is now adapted by researchers around the world -- not only to analyze vocalizations of animals of all kinds, but also seismic events, including underwater earthquakes as well as tornadoes and even heart EKGs. "Whales are individual...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The early bird gets the worm. The smart birdsnares the berry. ...n America and theCaribbean. "Many researchers and bird watchers knew that North American migrating birdsconsumed fruit during autumn, but the extent and im......herman said, pointing to honey bees, ants and some bird and primate species. "Very different species have evolved similar communication signals to ensure survival, " he said. "In the case of the mole-rats and social insects, if the foragers don't share their knowledge, the rest of the colony may starv...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...esearch, Coleman developed an indexwhich relies on bird counts to evaluate the condition of wetlandhabitat...nd in the Greater Cincinnati area. Then, hetracked bird occurrences in five Indiana and Ohio wetlands aswell as three Cincinnati parks for a dry land compar...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...r during severe food shortages when the first-born bird drops below 75 percent of normal body weight. Blu...even stand over their chicks to give the attacking bird more room to maneuver. The masked boobies nest, flatter than the blue-footed species, may also make ...Christmas Bird Count: Another Holiday Tradition
To make it easier for couch potato bird watchers, 30 years of counting is now available on...e page on the Internet, showing full color maps of bird distribution in the U.S. and Canada for the past 30 years. Visit the site at: http://www.mbr.nbs.gov...Birds Deal With "Cocktail Party Effect"
...phony of many sounds, a "cocktail partyeffect" for bird song, Johns Hopkins University psychologistshave found. "The issue here is, how can the bird hear these significantevents in the midst of other noises, which are other potentiallysignificant si...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
...ent of Science (AAAS) in Seattle. Like a fledgling bird testing its wings, BirdSource is beginning modestl...e Web, we will be able to tune to the movements of bird populations, just like the weather reports track the movements of storm fronts. We will have up-to-...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...an immune response in a chicken without making the bird sick. When given a dose of the vaccine, newborn ch...es, and possibly kill the bird. But by giving the bird the weakened strain contained in the vaccine, the bird always wins." Bigger winners in this develop...Planned Burning In Forests A Boon To Several Species Of Birds In Illinois
...o the south in Mason County. "When you burn, some bird species go down in abundance," hesaid. "Fire sele...n-canopy forests, and of the impact of fireson the bird populations. Daily survival rate of nests in burned areas forrose-breasted grosbeaks, for example, ...Lethal Parasite Prime Suspect In Fish Kills At Salton Sea
...ly dead fish from locations where most of the bird mortality was occurring. In collaboration with NWHC studies, Dr. Jan Landsberg, a research scientist in aquatic health at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, examined gills from 23 fish collected at the Salton Sea fo...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...latitude, longitude and other information for each bird to the schools and filters questions and comments ... backs. They can also use the program to design a bird that could fly even faster and farther than the real thing. Sievert, the postdoctoral student at th...SFSU Biologist Deciphers Desert Animals' Whistles And Drumbeats
... calls to indicate a slithering snake or a soaring bird of prey. Their cohorts seem to recognize the differences. For example, vervets dive for cover when the signal is "Eagle!" but scramble up a tree if the danger is a cheetah. Randall's research has been supported by the National ...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...th abandoned minelands to determining the cause of bird die-offs in the Salton Sea, from understanding majorecosystems such as the Everglades, San Francisco Bay, and Chesapeake Bay to responding whennatural disasters occur, every day the USGS is providing science for our changing world." The FY 1999 bud...New Dinosaur Finds In Antarctica Paint Fuller Picture Of Past Ecosystem
...ur, along withremains of Antarctica's most ancient bird and an array of giant marine reptiles, on Vega Isl...e from what appears to beAntarctica's most ancient bird yet found. Also collected were numerous partial skeletons ofgigantic marine reptiles called plesiosa...High Testosterone Level May Lead Male Junco To Stray From Mate
...BUS, Ohio -- What makes a normally monogamous male bird stray fromhis mate to copulate with neighboring fe... used dark-eyed juncos, a sparrow-sized species of bird thatcommonly breeds in Canada and mountainous parts of the United States. Thisstudy involved four ye...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
...GAA, andtwo were injected with salt solution. Each bird received seven injections over a16-day period. Two... right themselves when flipped on their backs. One bird could evenfly a short distance. Tests showed these birds had an increase in GAA activityand decrease......es as mouseintestines, 57-year-old Dead Sea water, bird feces, and termite guts. The"flashlight" they use to illuminate the shadowy phylogenetic relationshipsbetween microorganisms is the sequence of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. "This gene has conserved regions and very variable regions," saysDewhi...New Sickle-Clawed Fossil From Madagascar Links Birds And Dinosaurs
...gram,which funded the research. The fossil bird is 65 to 70 million years old and dates from the L... Forster added, "Rahona was at the base of the bird family tree, rightnext to Archaeopteryx. It had a feathered wing and many bird features in itships ......s similar to Shuvuuia deserti, including the early bird Mononykus,have been found in Mongolia, Argentina, ...evidence of this characteristicin such a primitive bird is surprising and indicates that this ability actuallyarose early in bird evolution. A detai...