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Four of the species that Gibbs identified are cuckoo bees, #which have lost the ability to build their own nests and collect pollen.
That s the same sort of trick cuckoos pull in the bird world. Gibbs named one of the cuckoo-bee species Lasioglossum izawsum,
which is awesome.)Four of the species were found in the New york city area, including a specimen that was collected at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2009.
and can solve whatever new problems this fledgling new industry blows their way. 18. Data Hostage Specialists Holding people as hostages is very messy.
or bird damage that leaves most apples somewhat marginalized. They may be perfectly good on the inside,
a number of related technologies have emerged giving the fledgling new industry a number of new options.
maker of Angry Birds, is expected to clear $100 million in revenue this year (the company was nearly bankrupt
Worse still, radiation spread well outside the mandatory evacuation zone, nestling in hot spots#and contaminating the ground in what remains a largely agricultural region.
On one long block, accountant Henry Calderon welcomes older passers-by to rest in his air-conditioned lobby even if theyre not customers.
Rooms include the Birds Nest, the UFO and the Mirrorcube, just part of the 25 different architectural flights of fancy planned for the hotel.
the birds do not survive the plucking. At Whiting Farms, Inc.,in western Colorado, one of the worlds largest producers of fly tying feathers, the roosters live about a year
while their saddle feathers#the ones on the birds backside and the most popular for hair extensions#grow as long as possible.
500 birds a week for their feathers and still cant keep up with its current orders,
Indeed there is empirical evidence of this being true with birds where the number of dead birds found stuck in the grills of cars has dropped dramatically over the past few decades.
But the same is not true for deer. So the question becomes#are deer incapable of learning,
Circus trained animals such as horses, elephants, and tigers have learned to respond to human voice commands.
Swallows are the pesky birds that create the dirty mud nests on the sides of buildings. With a little training, would it be possible to teach the swallows to work with cement instead of mud,
fat or salt to children, including the use of cartoon characters like Toucan Sam, the brightly colored Froot Loops pitchman,
Toucan Sam can sell healthy food or junk food,#said Dale Kunkel, a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of childrens food.
This forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.##The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts,
#said Kantha Shelke, co-president of the food research firm Corvus Blue. Or cheese#cheese is naturally a pale color
In a brilliant stroke of marketing genius, Tonka is making a play to replace the stork in baby lore...
One of the first people to uncover evidence for a once greener Antarctic was none other than the explorer, Robert Falcon Scott.
its best to avoid the one with the Soccer Cocks. They tend to play dirty
#Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey The White-Headed Duck is threatened among many fowl.
Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkeys Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world that initially provoked much international alarm.
plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey#According to a biology professor at Hacettepe University in the capital city of Ankara,
more than half of the 437 bird species that are regularly found in Turkey are at serious risk.
the head of the universitys Environmental Education and Bird Research center, told the state-run Anatolia news agency recently.
Bird Populations In Turkey Have decreased By Half The other 65 species out of the 502 identified in Turkey are seen only at certain times.
However, of the 437 species, the Oriental darter and bald ibis have disappeared already from the natural habitat in Turkey,
adding that total bird populations in the country have decreased by half over the past two decades.
The Oriental darter is a species that once nested around Lake Amik in Hatay; however, they have not been observed in the region
He said the last time wild bald ibises were observed in Turkey was when three were found in Å anlä urfas Birecik district in 1988.
adding that bird populations around the lake are threatened also by flights from the nearby airport in Isparta.
or forced the destruction of hundreds of millions of birds, according to the world animal health organization OIE.
While large poultry producers could benefit from this early type of transgenic bird, smaller backyard#farmers would need to wait until scientists create birds that can be bred on small farms.
That would be a means of ensuring that the birds these small farmers bred themselves still carried the protective transgene,
#Tiley said. To breed their GM chickens, the researchers introduced a new gene into them that manufactures a small decoy#molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognizing the decoy molecule instead of the viral genes
Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus, but they did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them
#even if those chickens were normal, non-transgenic birds. The study was published in Science. The researchers said they now plan to work on trying to make chickens that are fully resistant to bird flu rather than just blocking bird-to-bird transmission.
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#Genetically modified crops That Glow Green When Stressed Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes.
The iphone and ipad have about 700,000 apps, from Instagram to Angry Birds. Yet with the American economy yielding few good opportunities in recent years, there is debate about how real,
Mr. Nicholas and a friend, Brent Miller, were inspired to form a company. We were going to make another million
#Brent Miller said. His father took out a second mortgage. Revenue is now coming in, with 3,
or a marketing tool that gulls people into overpaying. The production of organic food is governed by a raft of regulations that generally prohibit the use of synthetic pesticides, hormones and additives.
And unlike Angry Birds on your phone, Strap Game (that s the official name) will alert you
but two new coasters#the X Flight at Six Flags Great America and Dollywood s Wild Eagle#have you hanging off the side of the track, dangling in midair.
Angry Birds alone has had over 600 million downloads. Draw Something#was launched 6 weeks ago and already has over 20 million downloads
such as western scrub jays, tended to avoid noise, while other seed-eaters, like mice, appeared to prefer foraging in noisy areas.
because the instinct of jays is to hide many of the seeds, the newspaper quoted Clinton Francis,
and Falcon 9 rocket to fly crew as well. Sierra nevada is developing a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that resembles a miniature space shuttle.
and technological development in general#hen clearly a less high-tech approach would be just as or even more effective#s just delusional.
nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,
Parrot officially unveiled the follow-up to its popular quadrocopter at CES AR Drone 2. 0 Flying Drones
as a six-year old boy named Falcon had gotten somehow trapped inside a small weather balloon that was flying over the Midwest.
or bird damage that leaves most apples somewhat marginalized. They may be perfectly good on the inside,
Wrote Isabella Bird, a British travel writer, in an 1879 book:##oeboulder is a hideous collection of framed houses on the burning plain.#
Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,
avoid big rocks#hen sent out to test them by trial and error. This is slow, painstaking work, but it s easier to predict
and messages down our readers throats like adult birds feeding their babies pre-masticated maggots;
when a collision seems imminent#hen the car ahead breaks hard, for example, or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic.
#oeswarmbots#is a term to describe a grouping of robots that work together like a school of fish or a flock of birds.
Phase 2#Protection Drones Some companies are already working on Phase 2 drones capable of proactively protecting the crops from bugs, birds, disease,
Prevent birds from destroying high value crops Identify insects, worms, and other unwanted plant devastation Precision pesticide, herbicide,
) Ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand when threatened. Actually they don t bury their heads at all.
When threatened, ostriches flop on the ground and play dead. Source: San diego Zoo. 11.)) Your blood is never blue
#Douglas Adams. It s how I feed humming birds, with a mouth full of Red Bull,
Looks like I just dove into the red sea!..Rule of thumb! To be considered an expert, it helps to look grumpy!..
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According to recent reports, over 16,000 dead pigs have been joined by 1, 000 dead ducks and, rather ominously, 13 dead black swans in China s rivers.
as well as mockery elsewhere#even Jay Leno got into the act. So, how the hell did this happen?
So how long will it be before we see a revived version of the passenger pigeon (extinct in 1914), the Tasmanian tiger (extinct in 1936),
if California condors go extinct, it s unclear if they could ever be brought back fully, because young condors rely on their parents for training.
will revived a species learn to adapt to its new environment? Will they be able to reproduce in sufficient number to ever be fully viable?
If the technique proves successful (such as with the passenger pigeon), it might be applied to the many other extinct species that have left their#oeancient DNA#in museum specimens
when a flock of birds flew over than when I applied the sound. Now, there are going to be some animals that you either get your rifle
We have developed trunks that feature ungulates, bears, owls, creepy-crawlies, water, and tracks. Each of the trunks includes between 15#20 books on the subject,(both fiction and non-fiction;
and birds you see along the way.#(#Hillsboro Public library, Hillsboro, Oregon) From the Ashland Branch Library of the Jackson County Library Services:
Owl Pellets#A presentation on owls where the kids and adults take apart owl#oepellets#to see what they have eaten and digested.
6. Swarmbots Groups of flying drones that move like flocks of birds, schools of fish,
nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,
This time spent crashing a fucking bird into a pipe quickly accumulates where a significant amount of seemingly insignificant yet beautiful moments pass you by
when they show up at the door with half-dead mice and birds as presents. Yet grains how much and what kind have become a controversial issue in recent years in both human and pet diets.
our kite-surfers head to the beach and then get online later. That s just what they do,
Brent Johnson a corn and soybean farmer in Calhoun County in central Iowa, purchased a drone in 2013 for $30, 000 that is already paying dividends on his 900-acre farm.
You've Never Seen a Snowflake In this Much Detail Accuweather Winter Weather Center Who Has the Best Chance for a White Christmas?
and Easter combined. 6) That's a big bird The average turkey purchased for Thanksgiving weighs 16 lbs.
Now you can be the talk of your dinner table this holiday a perfect turkey tidbit to impress holiday dinner guests. 11) Bald eagle who?
It's hard to imagine the turkeyâ as the official bird of the United states but if Ben Franklin had had his way it could have been.
In a letter to his daughter Franklin referred to the turkey saying I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country!
The turkey is a much more respectable bird and withal a true original native of America.
6 Crazy Facts About Cicadas Bird species raccoons possums foxes and whatever can get their mouths on these things can eat their fill
As governor of New york Roosevelt even outlawed the use of feathers in clothing like hats to prevent the slaughter of exotic birds.
Barnacle plates sitting on top of the lava are about 13000 years old Baichtal said. The whole package now sits about 260 feet (80 meters) above sea level hinting at how much Earth's crust has bobbed up since the last ice age.
The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium in New orleans is cooking up insect-filled Thanksgiving treats at their cafe called Bug Appã tit this Tuesday (Nov 26) and Wednesday (Nov 27.
and birds are particular fans). The bugs are raised in sanitary conditions and eat an organic diet.
That s where similar environmental factors lead to traits that are unrelated similar in species. Think rheas (South america) ostriches (Africa) and emus (Australia.
All are unrelated large flightless birds that evolved on different continents. I m not sure what drives trees to grow taller
But during the five-month-long breeding season the birds'social organization completely changes said Jessica Yorzinski an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University in Lafayette Ind.
Usually bugs birds or intrepid kittens do that job. Now we can add crocodiles to that list.
although not as well understood as for insects mammals birds and even in snakes. The recent study published in the Journal of Zoology shows that for crocodiles almost a quarter of the fruits consumed were of the oefleshy kind.
when in the future they reflect uncomprehendingly on our abuse of hens and orcas appreciate that we are good and decent people moving in the right direction and show some compassion for our obliviousness.
Orange-Bellied Parrot (Op-Ed) This article was published originally atâ The Conversation. Â The publication contributed the article to Livescience'sâ Expert Voices:
If you had to ask an average Australian the name of a threatened bird in this country many would nominate the Orange-bellied Parrot.
Every year the last birds remaining in the wild leave their breeding grounds at Melaleuca in the remote southwest wilderness of Tasmania to fly to the saltmarshes along the coastline of Victoria and South australia.
And each year hundreds of volunteers go out to count the birds and see how they are faring.
Yet somehow the poor Orange-bellied Parrot is always getting into trouble. The first incident was in 1996
and discovered that the area was favoured habitat for the parrot. He didn t want any oetrumped up corella (a distantly-related species of cockatoo) to stop his development a name that conservationists subsequently adopted as their newsletter on the species. It was listed even in a recent book as the only bird name coined by a politician.
Ten years later Environment Minister Ian Campbell decided that the bird could be used as an excuse not to allow the construction of a wind farm in a friend s electorate in Gippsland.
The chances of any birds hitting the turbines were vanishingly small and he was forced to reverse the decision
but not before the parrot s reputation as a hindrance to development had been strengthened. More recently in 2012 the bird was blamed for holding up a marina development in Westernport.
The site also happened to be beside a globally important wetland but the parrot copped the blame
even though it had not been seen there for 25 years. The trouble is that no one has yet been able to put their finger on why the parrot is so rare.
This is despite it being the first bird in Australia to have its own recovery team set up in 1981.
Not that there is any shortage of theories. For a long time the most popular theory was a shortage of habitat in winter.
Many saltmarshes have been reclaimed along the southern coast of Australia. Those remaining are introduced full of nasty predators like foxes
However few of these sites still get parrots even though the birds have learnt to eat the weeds.
The birds are also under pressure at breeding sites in Tasmania. The birds nest in tree hollows that are favoured also by species introduced to Tasmania-such as the European Starling
-which steal the nest sites. Fortunately few starlings visit Melaleuca. And for most of its history there have been very few people either.
One of those few however may inadvertently have saved the parrot. Deny King lived at Melaleuca from 1946 until his death in 1991.
A bushman s bushman he actively managed the environment by lighting small fires to create a mosaic of habitats of different ages
just as Aboriginal people are thought to have done for thousands of years. Fires release nutrients and parrots love feeding on sedge
and grass seed in the first years after they are burnt. However keeping fires small is an art
Perhaps a shortage of parrots is due to a shortage of fire. This is certainly consistent with recent trends:
breeding productivity increases after the parrots get all the food they can eat. For a long time the population was estimated to be about 200.
While a captive population had been established back in 1983 genetic work showed that there were too few to encompass all of the parrot s genetic diversity.
So in 2011 21 young birds were taken from nests and transferred into the captive population. They have done well.
Currently there are over 200 birds in captivity at seven locations. But while they may be secure in captivity what of the birds in the wild?
So far they seem to be hanging on. In the spring of 2012 20 adults returned from migration producing 22 chicks over the ensuing months.
and the birds are feeding on burnt country as well. All females attempted to breed. This year 19 birds returned
and the decision was made to boost the wild population with 23 birds reared in captivity-enough to augment the population not enough to swamp wild behaviours.
Earlier tests have shown remarkably that newly released birds can migrate to Victoria and back. As of yesterday at least 14 pairs of Orange-bellied Parrots are breeding at Melaleuca this year.
Also the first chicks of the year hatched at Taroona and Healesville. Just possibly the wild population at Melaleuca can be recovered with the help of their cousins in captivity.
In the meantime the species remains a beacon of hope for those determined to retain all our biological heritage for our children.
All pictures supplied by photographers courtesy of Debbie Lustig at Save the Orange-bellied Parrot.
When autumn hits the black-capped chickadee goes gangbusters collecting seeds and hiding them in hundreds of different spots in trees and on the ground.
At the same time the tiny bird's hippocampus balloons by 30 percent as new nerve cells pop up in this part of the brain which is responsible for spatial organization
#Babies Abound at Penguin Colony Found by Poop A recent visit to a remote Antarctic emperor penguin colony found thousands of fuzzy penguin chicks meaning the colony is even bigger than previously thought.
A team from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station estimates there are 15000 penguins living in four groups at the colony on East Antarctica's Princess Ragnhild Coast.
The good weather this season gave us the opportunity this season to spend a bit more of time counting individual emperor penguins said Alain Hubert the expedition leader
Antarctica's Baby Penguins A December 2012 expedition from Princess Elisabeth station marked the first time humans saw this colony of flightless birds.
Lots of chicks This year's penguin count confirms the accuracy of the satellite monitoring Hubert said.
This a good sign for the survival of the species. The team found only about 100 adult penguins along the shoreline where the ice meets the sea compared with about 1000 adults last year Hubert said.
Other birds sighted during the trip include Adelie penguins and skuas a type of seabird that preys on penguin chicks.
The baby penguins were further inland slowly migrating toward stable sea ice about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from their overwintering spot where the fathers huddle together for warmth
 Hubert and field guide Christophe Berclaz had to pick their way down a 130-foot-tall (40 meters) ice cliff to find the waddling groups of penguins.
Pesky penguins Seeing the fuzzy penguin chicks demand a vomited-up meal was Hubert's favorite part of the few hours spent at the massive colony.
Emperor penguins are the largest penguin species and stand on average about 45 inches (114 centimeters) tall and weigh 90 pounds (41 kilograms) when full-grown.
Satellite imagery has helped find previously unknown penguin colonies in Antarctica expanding their known population but the future of penguin species remains uncertain as global warming changes Antarctica's climate.
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#Bizarre Egg-Burying Birds Hatch at Bronx Zoo Three maleo chicks have been hatched at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Bronx Zoo in New york where keepers recreated the conditions of the birds
While most birds sit on their eggs to keep their unhatched young warm maleos bury their large eggs in underground nests letting heat from geothermal sources the sun
so that the birds can find a warm spot to bury their eggs. Surveillance cameras allow keepers to watch the nesting areas closely
The birds which belong to the megapode family are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In Sulawesi the birds'wild population is shrinking due to humans'unsustainable harvesting of their eggs and predation by invasive species according to WCS officials.
and supporting the national effort to give laying hens more space. And there's The HSUS effort to phase out gestation crates
The majority of pregnant sows egg-laying hens and other farm animals are housed in barren crowded cages and crates barely larger than their bodies.
The era began on a big down note catching the tail end of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event at the close of the Cretaceous period that wiped out the remaining non-avian dinosaurs.
Other than a few birds that were classified as dinosaurs most notable the Titanis the dinosaurs were gone. Large flightless birds such as the Diatryma thrived.
 The Neogene Period gives rise to early primates including early humans. Bovids including cattle sheep goats antelope
Thriving populations of wolves deer lynx beaver eagles boar elk bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant.
and ducks that drank from the river died. If you put your leg in the water you'll get rashes
since these individuals started playing a pivotal role in the counting of birds in the early 1900s.
Because stimuli throughout the day such as car headlights will set off a rooster's crow at any time it was also possible that increasing light was the trigger for the cock's crows.
and in response light and the crows of their fellow chickens but those behaviors were much stronger at daybreak.
When a juvenile dusky parrot (Pionus fuscus) fell into the river they fished the bird out
After a few hearty meals the yellow-beaked parrot headed back into the forest. An important ecosystem Southeastern Suriname is important above and beyond its role as a biodiversity hotspot the scientists found.
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