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Science & Tech News tagged with birds

Killer Birds Bite Off Bats' Heads -Video-
Science & Tech  (tags: birds, bats, investigation, environment, discovery, research )

Daphna
- 59 days ago - newscientist.com
It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. Although bats have been reported preying on songbirds before, this is the first time great tits
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Of Rooks and Rocks: Birds Live Up to Their Fabled Reputation
Science & Tech  (tags: biology, interesting, birds, rooks, crows, Aesop’s, fable, pitcher, stones, drink, eat, worm, discovery, study, research, investigation, science )

Tom
- 92 days ago - latimes.com
In Aesop's fable about the crow and the pitcher, a thirsty bird adds stones to raise the water level in a pitcher in order to drink from it. Rooks, a relative of the crow, use stones to raise the level of water in a container to reach a floating worm.
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Bird Experiment Shows Aesop's Fable May Be True
Science & Tech  (tags: science, birds, crows, interesting )

Michelle
- 94 days ago - usnews.com
NEW YORK--From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study says at least one such tale might really have happened.
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New PhysOrg Science W/Video News
Science & Tech  (tags: science, tech, technology, research, video, news, world, astronomy, environment, Mars, birds, computers, concept, design, energy, discovery, habitat, humans, interesting, nasa, NewTechnology, scientists, space )

SirRobert
- 136 days ago - physorg.com
PhysOrg.com introduces its new Science w/Video News section. A great selection for Science-Tech news articles that contain a wide variety of excellent video tracks! Please check this out & pass it on.
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How Do Animals Fly? Science Deconstructs Simple Stability Rule
Science & Tech  (tags: studies, technology, animals, birds, flying, discovery, scientists, science, research )

Simone
- 206 days ago - boston.com
A hawk moth can fly fast, slow, up, down, sideways, even backward. It can hover. It can easily position itself at an open flower swaying in the breeze. Its entire life is an aerial show. Human engineers would love to make a tiny flying device, a little
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Speedy Songbirds
Science & Tech  (tags: Earth, environment, ecology, birds, songbirds, science )

Scarlett
- 266 days ago - blogs.nature.com
Tiny geolocating "backpacks" have helped scientists discern that songbirds can migrate three times as fast as previously thought, as reported in Science.
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Where Are All The Migratory Birds Going?
Science & Tech  (tags: birds, avian, animals, migration, magnetosphere, magnetic field, environment, science, research, tech, endangered, world, interesting, news, biology, climate change, global warming, scientists, bird watchers )

SirRobert
- 274 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Even though scientists still don't know where many avian migrants spend their non-breeding off-season, tracking migrations has become extremely important, because birds are suffering significant declines and are facing unprecedentd threats.
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9 Links in the Dinosaur-to-Bird Transition
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Mamabear
- 276 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Archaeopteryx, shown here in an artist's rendering, is believed to be the world's earliest bird and a descendant of the dinosaurs. The crow-sized creature lived about 150 million years ago. Some scientists believed it so
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Airports Testing Radar That Could Spot Birds
Science & Tech  (tags: research, NewTechnology, airport, science, technology, flocks, birds, collisions )

Lynne
- 285 days ago - newsday.com
NEW YORK - A handful of U.S. airports will soon begin testing experimental radar systems designed to track flocks of birds.
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Scientists Find a Missing Link
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, ancient, scientists, dinosaurs, feathers, evolution, china, paleontology, birds, birdlike dinosaurs )

Chris
- 287 days ago - popsci.com.au
A new fossil sheds light on the evolution of feathers and a rare group of dinosaurs
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Bird Diversity Lessens Human Exposure To West Nile Virus
Science & Tech  (tags: biology, birds, West Nile Virus, humans, interesting )

Ingrid
- 395 days ago - sciencedaily.com
This one's for the birds. A study by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that the more diverse a bird population is in an area, the less chance humans have of exposure to West Nile Virus (WNV). Now, let's hear it for the birds.
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Female Birds Sacrifice Health to Create More Colourful Eggs
Science & Tech  (tags: research, birds, health risks, eggs, study )

Ingrid
- 401 days ago - nature.com
Great artists are said to pour all their energies onto the canvas, leaving them exhausted after a flurry of creativity.
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Long-Held Assumptions Of Flightless Bird Evolution Challenged By New Research
Science & Tech  (tags: research, birds, evolution, ancestors, interesting, study )

Ingrid
- 426 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Large flightless birds of the southern continents - African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, South American rheas and the New Zealand kiwi - do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed.
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New Bird Species Discovered In Gabon, Africa
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, africa, New Species, birds, scientists )

Ingrid
- 447 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community.
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Fossil Feathers Reveal Their Hues
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, ornithology, avian species, extinct species, feathers, feather colour, genetics, feather structure, flight, birds )

Rooibos
- 486 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The complex coloured plumage of extinct birds which once soared over the heads of dinosaurs could soon be revealed
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