Scientists are teaching birds to sing lost songs(e360.yale.edu)
42 points by speckx | 5 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest item, republished from The Guardian, about scientists teaching birds to sing songs their populations have lost.
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5 stories tagged ornithology, newest first.
Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting(birdshistory.com)
20 points by Heidi_70 | 7 comments
A Birds History article on how long it takes to declare a bird species extinct, noting a median wait of 36 years after the last confirmed sighting.
Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos(nature.com)
34 points by bryanrasmussen | 4 comments
Open-access Scientific Reports article studying body awareness in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana).
How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully(frontiersin.org)
437 points by layer8 | 125 comments
Frontiers news article about a hawk that learned to use traffic signals and the resulting queues of cars to hunt prey more successfully in an urban setting.
A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)
478 points by geox | 392 comments
Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.