[ad_1] "The Boori Sound" from "Nightingales in Berlin" includes a nightingale, Rothenberg on clarinet, Lembe Lokk's voice and Sanna Salmenkallio on violin. It was registered at Viktoriapark, Kreuzberg, Berlin, in May 2017. …
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[ad_1] Climate change may be flipping good Arctic neighborhoods into killing fields for baby birds. Every year, shorebirds migrate thousands of kilometers from their southern winter refuges to reach Arctic breeding grounds. …
Read More »Elephant birds were blind, nocturnal and larger than Big Bird
[ad_1] (CNN) – You may have thought that Big Bird was incredibly gigantic, but it's still not the biggest bird to have ever walked on Earth. This honor goes to the elephant …
Read More »Elephant birds were blind, nocturnal and larger than Big Bird
[ad_1] For reference, Big Bird's "Sesame Street" stands at 8 feet, 2 inches. New research suggests that giant birds unable to fly, which died out between 500 and 1,000 years ago, were …
Read More »Officials: West Nile virus found in wild birds in Delaware
[ad_1] by Associated Press July 13 at 10:03 DOVER, Del. – Officials say that they have detected West Nile virus in wild birds for the first time this year, and it is …
Read More »This part of the brain might explain why parrots are so much smarter than other birds
[ad_1] Parrots are known for their intelligence, but why they should be so much smarter than other birds is not entirely clear. New research suggests that parrots have an expanded brain circuit …
Read More »Scientists identify the mechanism responsible for intelligence in birds
[ad_1] The new study by neuroscientists from the University of Alberta reports that scientists have managed to "spot" the exact neural circuit responsible for intelligence in birds. This new research is an …
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