European Migratory Songbirds Navigate with Magnetic Stop Signs

Medicine & Technology Jan 28, 2022

A new study shows how the European songbirds migrate through the help of natural navigation from magnetic fields.

Sky Island Sunbirds Have Been Singing the Same Song For Up to A Million Years Despite Ecological Changes

Jan 18, 2022

Sky island sunbirds have lived in mountain forests that are isolated from other sunbirds for up to a million years, which could explain why they are stuck on a retweet despite changes in their habitats.

Smartest Animal in the Planet? Clever Crows Can Assign Value to Tools They Use Just Like Humans

Dec 31, 2021

Crows enjoy using tools in foraging for food just like humans. Some experts have even dubbed them as the smartest animal on the planet, better than primates.

New Camera- And AI-Based Technology Can Make Wind Turbines Recognize Birds to Pause in Their Flight Path

Dec 27, 2021

In a bid to protect birds from accidentally hitting wind turbines, a Colorado-based company has developed a camera- and AI-based technology that will make the turbines stop when to avoid birds in their flight path.

Can You Help Scientists Find These 10 Most Wanted Lost Birds?

Dec 20, 2021

These ten bird species haven't been spotted in ten years or more, according to experts, and the bird-watching community may be able to assist in the search.

Engineers Built a Falcon-Like Drone That Perch and Carry Objects Like a Bird

Dec 02, 2021

A team of engineers created a new drone that has led loaded with four 3D-printed talons that lock around it makes contact with, such as a branch to rest on.

Microchromosomes Identified as Building Blocks of Every Vertebrate Animal; Junk DNA Specks More Essential than First Thought

Nov 03, 2021

A new study confirmed that microchromosomes, first though as useless specks in junk DNA, are building blocks of all vertebrate species.

Brood Parasites Birds Exercise While Inside Their Eggs Before Hatching To Kill Nestmates

Oct 27, 2021

Newly hatched birds exercise while in their eggs before hatching to develop the strength they need to mutilate and eventually kill their nestmates.

Puffins: Maine's Much-Loved Seabirds Experience the Worst Year Ever; Species Severe Warning for Reproduction in Decades

Oct 17, 2021

Puffins, the beloved seabirds of Maine have suffered one of their worst years in terms of the population due to warm ocean temperatures.

How Do Birds React to Climate Change? New Research Reveals Link Between Breeding Sites and Tree Health

Sep 29, 2021

A study recently revealed shifts in the timing of "egg-laying by great tit birds" as a reaction to climate change differ evidently between breeding sites within the same woodland and that such difference is associated with tree health of nearby oaks.

Migration Makes Microorganisms in Bird's Stomach Change and Evolve

Sep 28, 2021

University of Chicago recently discovered that the gut microbiome of birds changes as they move from different places during migration.

Humans in New Guinea May Have Hatched, Raised Cassowaries 18,000 Years Ago

Sep 27, 2021

An international team of scientists said, humans in New Guinea may have collected eggs from cassowaries close to maturity, and then raised their birds as early as 18,000 years ago.

Baby Birds Returned to the Wild After Being Saved From Bulldozer; Habitat Loss Remains Primary Threat to Wildlife

Sep 27, 2021

A contract worker from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District’ save two gray baby birds from being crushed by a bulldozer. They have now returned to the wild after being rescued.

Fossilized Cretaceous Bird With Fancy Tail Feathers First to Express Evolutionary 'Fashion Over Function'

Sep 17, 2021

Recent discovery of an Early Cretaceous bird confirmed the first account of fasion ofver function in the evolutionary history.

Thousands of Seabirds Die Due to Starvation During Ferocious Winter Cyclones; Experts Warn Climate Change Could Worsen It

Sep 17, 2021

Thousands of dead seabirds are found every year on North Atlantic coasts after winter cyclones hit, a mysterious phenomenon that only now scientists have uncovered.