Rainforest birds keep dying out long after logging stops
...rooks and his colleagues studied the extinction of bird species in fivefragments of Kakamega Forest, Kenya... rainforest. The researchersdetermined the rate of bird extinction based in part on how long the fragmenthas been isolated and on the number of bird extinct...USGS biologists tracking West Nile-like virus in birds
...onsible. Wewould like also to determine what other bird species are involved and if speciesbesides crows are at risk of dying from the disease." The CDC has made the link between the West Nile-like virus found in birds in NewYork City and the ongoing human encephalitis outbreak in the area. On Friday,CD...Counting elephants by monitoring sounds
...fund theremaining phases. Explaining why a bird lab is aiding elephants, Cornell Laboratory ofOrnithology Director John W. Fitzpatrick says: "Our mission explicitlyacknowledges that we are here for the protection and interpretation of theEarth's biological diversity. All organisms, large and smal...Global warming threatens state's quality of life
...ng in the ocean, with declines in zooplankton, sea bird populations and cold-water species of fish being matched by increases warm-water species. And scientists predict if the warming trend continues until 2100, it will be accompanied by an 8- to 10-inch rise in sea level that could inflame already existi...USGS reports that West Nile virus goes beyond crows
...son, Wis. USGS has recently released a list of 18 bird species that the Centers for Disease Control and P...some of the affected areas have reported very high bird mortality, especially in crows, a number of the birds have died from other causes," said USGS wildli...Lizard research bolsters theory that forest edges are hotbeds of speciation
...that this is not just something happening in a few bird species in Cameroon. It's happening in another rai... By looking for the telltale bite marks created by bird bills, the researchers identified how many models were attacked. According to Schneider, it was...West Nile Virus may be new deadly strain, USGS tells Congress
...late August could be more deadly to North American bird species than to species in Africa, the Middle East... Wis., briefed the committee on the role of native bird populations and other wildlife in the emergence of West Nile virus in the United States. Detection ...Transgenic fish could threaten wild populations
...ticists. Muir likes to use the example of the male bird ofparadise with its long swells of gloriously colored plumage as an example: "The male bird of paradisewith the longest, thickest tail attracts the most females. Subsequent offspring also exhi...Today's Science for America's Tomorrow: the USGS FY 2001 Budget
...reas. Work will focus on tracking crows and other bird carriers of the disease to anticipate possible future areas of outbreaks of encephalitis in people. Another focus will be amphibian research and monitoring, which is slated for a $2 million increase to track the status of fragile amphibians and inve......ches Boston, MA -- February 22, 2000 -- A little bird told Jeffrey Macklis that it might be possible, one day, to awaken the birth of new neurons inside a person's brain without transplantation of so-called stem cells from other sources. In the February Neuron, Macklis, a neuroscientist at Boston's Chi...New Science study revisits the debate over bird parents, predators, and family planning
Washington, D.C.-- What factors affect the size of bird families? Understanding the forces that drive evolutionary changes in bird behavior and life history "may help us better assess the vulnerability of different species to extin...Dominant birds stay leaner than their subordinates, study finds
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Legend says that the early bird gets the worm, but research suggests that the bird that dines just before going to bed has the real advantage. ...Concorde to blame for missing pigeons?
... is the key to the birds' map sense. Bob Beason, a bird navigation expert at the State University of New York in Geneseo, says the work is intriguing. "The idea that pigeons might use infrasound for orientation has been around for a while." However, he thinks Hagstrum has more work to do to show that Conc...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
...systemic aorta, more like the heart of a mammal or bird than a reptile," says Dr. Dale Russell, a paleontologist at NC State University and a senior research curator at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. The finding suggests the dinosaur's circulatory system was more advanced than that of reptiles, an...Medical imaging shows dinosaur heart more like bird's or mammal's than reptile's
...r fossil reveals a heart more closely resembling a bird or mammal organ, rather than a modern reptile's. T...so have arisen independently in the dinosaurean to bird lineage and in ornithiscians, the researchers say. What the heart structure can reveal about dinosa...A big whoop! Crane chicks will hatch on-line: Go to whoopers.USGS.gov
...see their human caregivers. In this and many other bird species, chicks that are exposed to human beings may become imprinted on them, and grow up preferring the company of people to that of their own kind. Thus, to acquire a crane identity, chicks must be fed and cared for by cranes or as close as possi...Cowbirds' winning songs reflect brainpower
...ithologists consider cowbirds the parasites of the bird world -- commandeering the nests of other birds, h...his information has been correlated in a parasitic bird species. No one has ever done this before. Surprisingly there is a close correlation between brain...Sequencers take a bird in hand
...of a bird's "genomic signature" - showing that the bird genome is both similar to and significantly different from mammalian genomes. The house finch belongs to a group called the Passeriformes, or perching songbirds, which contains over half the living species of birds. Scott Edwards and colleagues focu...How stress maintains population levels
...ldfinches (Carduelis tristis) and a few other wild bird species, causes the eyes of an infected bird to become swollen and crusty. This may lead to blindness and death from starvation as the birds bec...Ancient fossil shows earliest feathers, may end argument about birds' origin
...hollow-shafted feathers almost identical to modern bird feathers, . used the feathers, which evolved from reptilian scales, for flight instead of for regulating body heat, . molted like modern birds do, likely used aerodynamic forelimbs for steering and had a wishbone similar to modern birds. "These are...