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Feathered Friends Are Far from Bird-Brained When Building Nests
September 25, 2011 — Nest-building is not just instinctive but is a skill that birds learn from experience, research suggests. Scientists filmed male Southern Masked Weaver birds in Botswana as they built multiple nests ... > full story -
Evolutionary Traps in Human-Dominated Landscapes
September 22, 2011 — A new study looks at how human activities can diminish the usefulness of an ornamental trait, such as colorful feathers, as a signal of fitness. Cardinals, for example, need carotenoids in their diet ... > full story -
Smells May Help Birds Find Their Homes, Avoid Inbreeding; Research May Bring Help to Endangered Species
September 21, 2011 — Birds may have a more highly developed sense of smell than researchers previously thought, contend scholars who have found that penguins may use smell to determine if they are related to a potential ... > full story -
An Angry Bird in the Sky: Lambda Centauri Nebula
September 21, 2011 — A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope reveals the Lambda Centauri Nebula, a cloud of glowing hydrogen and newborn stars in the constellation of Centaurus (The ... > full story -
Primitive Birds Shared Dinosaurs' Fate
September 19, 2011 — A new study puts an end to the longstanding debate about how archaic birds went extinct, suggesting they were virtually wiped out by the same meteorite impact that put an end to dinosaurs 65 million ... > full story -
Pigeon 'Milk' Contains Antioxidants and Immune-Enhancing Proteins
September 19, 2011 — Production of crop milk, a secretion from the crops of parent birds, is rare among birds and, apart from pigeons, is only found in flamingos and male emperor penguins. Essential for the growth and ... > full story -
Size Matters: Length of Songbirds’ Playlists Linked to Brain Region Proportions
September 19, 2011 — Call a bird 'birdbrained' and they may call 'fowl.' Researchers have proven that the capacity for learning in birds is not linked to overall brain size, but to the relative size and proportion of ... > full story -
Tree Resin Captures Evolution of Feathers on Dinosaurs and Birds
September 15, 2011 — A researcher found treasure trove of Cretaceous feathers trapped in tree resin. The resin turned to resilient amber, preserving some 80 million-year-old protofeathers, possibly from non-avian ... > full story -
It’s All in the Head: Songbirds With Bigger Brains Have Benefited from the End of Communism
September 15, 2011 — The abundance of songbirds with relatively large brains in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic has increased since 1989/1990. The increase in large-brained songbirds is attributed to the better ... > full story -
Hitchhiking Snails Fly from Ocean to Ocean
September 14, 2011 — Scientists report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million years -- both times probably by flying ... > full story
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