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As a result, the museum plans to expand the hall, as well as add to its ancient birds collection.

During deep sleep, the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins.

During deep sleep,the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins.

He hopes now to train more birds.

He says that rooks, the chosen birds, are considered to be particularly intelligent.

However, some parents are concerned that it encourages their children to drop litter so they can watch the birds to pick it up.

pigeons are often seen as dirty birds and an urban nuisance but they are just the latest in a long line of animals that have been found to have abilities to help humans.

She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.

six birds have just been trained to pick up rubbish at a French historical theme park.

So far, visitors to the theme park have been excited to see the birds in action.

Some birds fly in groups for safety, while others fly alone.

Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food.

Some of those small mammals help to sustain such big birds as golden eagles.

The birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

He captures birds only to let them go when he realizes the cruelty involved.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together...just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

In the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering on rubbish dumps.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

Many birds like to store food for the winter, which they subsequently retrieve.

migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects.

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

"The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, " said Flack.

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri

When that happens, many trees like walnuts, oaks and pines, rely 30 exclusively on so-called "scatter-hoarders, " such as birds, to move their seeds to new localities.

When the birds forget to retrieve their food—and they do sometimes—a seedling has a chance to grow.

When the water hits the right level, the baby birds are kept safe from predators by a corrosive ditch.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

And why do cats give dead birds to their owners?

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

Biologist Kristin says the plan is to see how the birds respond to the multi-colored road this summer.

But when it comes to embryonic learning (胎教), birds could rule the roost.

California condors are north America's largest birds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

Embryonic learning helps mother birds to identify the baby birds which fit the environment better.

For a time, a few birds survived under human care.

He began studying them, trying to learn the differences between the birds and noticing their different behaviors.

However, some birds thrive in noisy environments.

In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food.

Like ancient sailors, birds can find their way using the sun and the stars.

Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.

Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

Observe signs to approach nesting birds.

On a local level, the damage of the forest required by full-sun fields affects the area's birds and animals.

Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.

The bird watchers' behavior shows that they care only about the names of birds.

The birds' health might be damaged.

The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

The change in how coffee is grown from shade-grown production to full-sun production endangers the very existence of, certain animals and birds, and even disturbs the world's ecological balance.

The shade of the forest trees provides a home for birds and other special that depend on the trees' flowers and fruits.

The writer mentions birds and frogs to show how light pollution affects animals.

Then he found that the animals around were very beautiful, and he particularly enjoyed observing the birds he saw.

Therefore, he painted the birds he observed a lot.

They are keen to see rare birds at the destination.

This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy wren, another species of Australian songbird.

We are lucky now to have so many paintings of American birds by John Audubon.

When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers—a sound that served as their regular "Feed me!" call.

"Young birds are often attracted to the warm road surface and get killed by the traffic." Biology student Hannah tells the broadcaster.

Beavers build dams and birds make nests.

But just some 22,000 birds remain today, occupying about 16% of the species' historic range.

Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.

Other birds flying in the up wash experience reduced drag, and spend less energy propelling themselves.

Peter lissaman, an aeronautics expert who was formerly at Caltech and the University of Southern California has suggested that a formation of 25 birds might enjoy a range increase of 71%.

since 1914, scientists have known that birds flying in formation—a V-shape —expend less energy.

The answer, says Dr Kroo, lies with birds.

They even had an affectionate nickname, "uccelli di passaggio, " birds of passage.

To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas.

USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67, 000 birds over the next 10 years.