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as well as storks, raptors, egrets and herons. Take white storks. In one breeding season, biologists from Spain's Universidad de Cordoba found nest switching in 40%of broods across three distinct white-stork breeding colonies.

That infant birds seek out new digs actually makes sense, since they could benefit from a longer period of parental care.

If they moved into nests containing fewer or younger chicks than their previous homes, then they could also receive more food by more easily outcompeting smaller adoptive siblings.

but unlike for white storks, there is a significant cost incurred by the foster parents: half as many of their own chicks grow to fledging age than the gulls that did not adopt.

White storks allow baby intruders to share their nest and food-but why?(Thinkstock) Given such high risks for adoption, why hasn't evolution endowed these birds with a better ability to identify oe and reject oe intruders?

But in all of those cases the adoption has always been within species. Storks adopt stork chicks,

and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake (along with its sort of sequels The Year of the Flood and the about to be published Maddaddam)

We are also living in close proximity to domestic creatures like pigs, chickens and ducks.

#Finance Site Lists Most Expensive Invasive Species A Canadian goose Asian carp arent the only invasive species causing trouble in the United states

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scorpions, dragonflies, barnacles, copepods and centipedes. Remipedes, one of the two species of Xenocarida in the study, had to be fetched from partially submerged limestone caves in the Yucatan peninsula and preserved just so.

a longtime employee Webb assigned to work on the Flamingo and who later became president of Del Webb Corp,

a longtime employee Webb assigned to work on the Flamingo and who later became president of Del Webb Corp,

In a brilliant stroke of marketing genius, Tonka is making a play to replace the stork in baby lore...

However, of the 437 species, the Oriental darter and bald ibis have disappeared already from the natural habitat in Turkey,

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

and ducks that drank from the river died. If you put your leg in the water you'll get rashes

Brent a 37-year-old male chimpanzee paints only with his tongue. His piece a cluster of smudges and speckles garnered the most votes in a chimpanzee art contest the Humane Society of the United states (HSUS) announced Thursday (Aug 29.</

Take a gander at the cherry blossoms at the NPS's webcam. Follow Andrea Thompson@Andreatoap Pinterest and Google+.

while a ship gets bogged down by barnacles as it crosses the ocean a shark swimming in the same ocean remains clean as a whistle.

and ducks Sumoski told Ouramazingplanet. By hitching a ride in these animals'digestive tracts the grasses'seeds can travel long distances establishing far-flung seagrass meadows.

Sumoski's study found that a type of diving duck called the lesser scaup can transport seeds more than 12 miles (19.5 kilometers;

In Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest botanist Brent Ewers of the University of Wyoming examined

The turkeys of the 19th century weren't like today's big-breasted Butterballs said Andrew Smith a lecturer on food history at The New School in New york city.

The exceptions are real odd ducks literally. Some waterfowl have coiling penises that can exceed the length of the rest of their bodies.

Whoa! The 9 Weirdest Animal Penises The most primitive group of birds paleognaths which include emus kiwis

anseriformes which include penis-wielding ducks swans and geese and galliformes which make up most land-loving birds

and ducks (anseriformes) and tracked their penis growth. It's pretty surprising actually Cohn said.

Chickens and ducks start to develop their genitalia in such a similar manner that they're almost indistinguishable.

in ducks it's only seen at the base of the genitals. To make sure Bmp4 was really doing the penis-stifling deed the researchers applied the protein to duck penises. Sure enough development halted.

because female birds preferred mates with smaller penises. In ducks and other species with phalluses males frequently force females to copulate.

The new research shows that the deadly H7n9 flu virus which emerged in China in March likely originated in migratory birds was passed to domestic ducks

China has about 65 percent of the world's domestic ducks and many live poultry markets where contact between people

chickens ducks quail geese pigeons and partridges. They sequenced the virus's genomes and the results are published Thursday (Aug 22) in the journal Nature.

Swans loons ducks geese grebes and other water fowl are among the wildlife that inhabit Lake ontario.

while 20 percent reported exposure to ducks and 7 percent to swine the report said.

They were odd ducks strange dinosaurs said Persons who presented the study results at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in November

or carried in by water birds he added. Diatoms particularly love volcanic lakes because they are the only creatures that build shells of glass.

#The 10 Weirdest Spills in Naturefrom molasses to rubber ducks some strange substances have spilled into waterways and onto roadways.

and it is an alternative to the explanation that the stork delivers babies. It is uncertain as to

Dr. Emma Frances Angell Drake described the birds and bees in a section of the publication The Story of Life which was widely distributed between 1893 and 1930.

Barr found four avocet chicks and the mallard duckling each just a few days old plus two avocet parents.

and different foraging modes so a duckling would really be raised better off by other ducks Barr felt the same

and after spotting a mallard family a few ponds over from the avocet-duck flock he went back for the duckling

and many of our treasured and familiar species such as turtledoves and corncrakes can thrive in extensively managed farmland.

Whooping cranes Need Parents More Like Them Whooping cranes have made an astonishing comeback in North america thanks in part to some bizarre conservation methods.

Strange as it sounds this elaborate game of roleplay has helped establish a new flock of whooping cranes that migrates each year from Wisconsin to Florida.

The people trying to save whooping cranes are now testing a new approach: They're matching some chicks with adult bird parents that can hopefully step in where humans are failing.

Photos of Incredible Animal Migrations A tentative success story In 1940 there were just 22 whooping cranes in the world.

which was created artificially as part of a whooping-crane reintroduction project starting in 2001. Today the flock has about 95 birds that spend their spring and summer in wetlands at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in central Wisconsin.

Sometime this month or perhaps in early November the flock will fly to the southeastern United states. The whooping cranes learned this migrating route from humans.

Eggs laid by captive whooping cranes in Maryland Wisconsin and Alberta are incubated. When they hatch the chicks are raised by humans cloaked in white costumes with a beaked puppet on their hands to teach the birds to eat and drink.

See Photos of the World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals I don't know that they actually think of us as whooping cranes said Glenn Olsen a veterinarian at the U s. Geological Survey's (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Maryland who said he spends much of May through July

The chicks are always in sight of actual adult whooping cranes Biologists just don't want the birds to be handled by people in street clothes Olsen told Live Science.

That's a big problem because for whooping cranes to become totally self-sustaining in the wild they'll need to raise wild-born chicks themselves.

Parenting practice Costume-rearing is really a very odd way to raise a crane said John French the leader of the USGS whooping-crane project at Patuxent.

French and others suspect there's some learned behaviors whooping-crane parents naturally impart that humans handlers can't teach.

which relies on captive whooping crane parents not costumed human handlers to care for exercise and feed the chicks after they hatch.

These young birds were put in predator-resistant pens at Necedah near other free-ranging whooping cranes including pairs of adults without chicks of their own.

These whooping-crane couples tend to adopt other chicks and when it comes time to migrate the adults will lead the fledglings southward.

whether they've been successful as whooping cranes don't typically start nesting until they're about 3 years old.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky the 19th-century Russian composer is renowned world for Swan Lake and the 1812 Overture among other pieces.

#Flamingo Facts: Food Turns Feathers Pink Flamingos are large birds that are identifiable by their long necks sticklike legs and pink or reddish feathers.

Flamingos embody the saying you are what you eat. The pink and reddish colors of a flamingo's feathers come from eating pigments found in algae and invertebrates.

There are six species of flamingo according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS: greater flamingo lesser flamingo Chilean flamingo Andean flamingo James'(or puna) flamingo and American (or Caribbean) flamingo.

The greater flamingo is the tallest species. It stands 3. 9 to 4. 7 feet (1. 2 to 1. 45 meters)

and weighs up to 7. 7 lbs. 3. 5 kilograms) according to Sea world. The shortest species is the lesser flamingo

which stands 2. 6 feet (80 cm) and weighs 5. 5 lbs. 2. 5 kg.

The wingspan of flamingos ranges from 37 inches (95 cm) to 59 inches (150 cm.

American flamingos live in the West indies Yucatã¡n in the northern part of South america and along the Galapagos islands.

Chilean Andean and James'flamingos live in South america and the greater and lesser flamingos live in Africa.

Greater flamingos can also be found in the middle East and India. Flamingos are water birds so they live in and around lagoons or lakes.

These bodies of water tend to be saline or alkaline. Flamingos are generally nonmigratory but changes in climate or water levels in their breeding areas will cause them to relocate according to Sea world. Flamingos eat larva small insects blue-green

and red algae mollusks crustaceans and small fish according to Sea world. Their tendency to eat both vegetation

and meat makes them omnivores. Flamingos are pink because the algae they consume are loaded with beta carotene an organic chemical that contains a reddish-orange pigment.

Beta carotene is also present in many plants but especially in tomatoes spinach pumpkins sweet potato and of course carrots.

The mollusks and crustaceans flamingos snack on contain similar pigment-packing carotenoids. Carotenoid levels in their food vary in different parts of the world

which is why American flamingos are usually bright red and orange while lesser flamingos of the drought-plagued Lake Nakuru in central Kenya tend to be a paler pink.

If a flamingo were to stop eating food containing carotenoids its new feathers would begin growing in with a much paler shade

and its reddish feathers would eventually molt away. Molted feathers lose their pinkish hue. What a flamingo eats depends on

what type of beak it has. Lesser James'and Andean flamingos have what is called a deep-keeled bill.

They eat mostly algae. Greater Chilean and American flamingos have keeled shallow bills which allow them to eat insects invertebrates and small fish.

To eat flamingos will stir up the bottom of the lake with their feet and duck their beaks down into the mud and water to catch their meal.

Groups of flamingos are called colonies or flocks. The colony works together to protect each other from predators

and to take care of the young. It is believed that flamingos are monogamous according to Sea world. Once they mate they tend to stay with that mate.

A group of flamingos will all mate at the same time so that all of the chicks will hatch at the same time.

Pairs will make nests out of mounds of mud and the female will lay one egg at a time according to the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Each egg is a little bigger than a large chicken egg at 3 to 3. 5 inches (78 to 90 millimeters) long and 4 to 4. 9 ounces (115

to 140 grams. The egg will take 27 to 31 days to hatch and the emerging chick will only be 2. 5 to 3. 2 ounces (73 to 90 g). Young reach maturity at 3 to 5 years old.

Baby flamingos are gray or white. They will turn pink within the first couple years of life.

Flamingos live 20 to 30 years in the wild or up to 50 years in a zoo.

The taxonomy of flamingos according to ITIS is: Kingdom: Animaliaphylum: Chordata Class: Avesorder: Phoenicopteriformes Family: Phoenicopteridaegenera:

Phoeniconaias Phoenicoparrus Phoenicopterusspecies: According to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species no flamingo species is considered currently endangered.

The lesser Chilean and James'flamingos are considered near threatened because their numbers are small or decreasing according to the IUCN.

Fossil evidence indicates that the group from which flamingos evolved is very old and existed about 30 million years ago before many other avian orders had evolved according to Sea world. It isn't really known why flamingos tend to stand on one foot

but it has been hypothesized that keeping one of their feet out of the cold water helps them to conserve body heat.

It also seems to be a comfortable resting position for them. Though it is believed that flamingos are tropical birds they can also live

and thrive in cold environments as long as they have access to plenty of water and food.

In East Africa more than 1 million flamingos have been known to gather together forming the largest flock known according to the Philadelphia Zoo o

We've seen more than one instance of bald eagles nesting in the middle of a great blue heron rookery. Why?

Angel wing is a deformity commonly found in ducks geese swans and other waterfowl. There has been little scientific study done on the condition yet most wildlife

and waterfowl experts agree the overwhelming cause of angel wing is an unhealthily high protein and/or carbohydrate-based diets.

Research such as oft-referenced studies on Canada geese and nutrition for young birds suggest feeding waterfowl an unhealthy diet can accelerate growth causing the wing to develop too quickly for proper bone support.

Nutritious waterfowl feed or duck pellets are inexpensive easy to carry and can be purchased at most feed stores.

and oats are all healthy food sources that will appeal to most waterfowl. Make sure anything you feed is bite-sized to avoid choking hazards.

and operated by The Fund for Animals (an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United states) treats about 2000 animals per year including a significant number of geese swans

and ducks suffering from angel wing. The highest incidence of admission is late fall or winter when affected birds have grown enough for the condition to be fully and painfully apparent.

Angel wing chiefly affects waterfowl. Young songbirds are fed by their parents and after they fledge have a lot of mobility and exposure to a varied diet.)

and bonding activity of feeding birds must be eliminated you just have to identify areas where feeding waterfowl is supported.

Masses of dead barnacles and starfish proved the land had just been underwater. Plafker concluded the pattern could only have been caused by a hidden fault releasing tension about 9 miles (15 km) below the surface.

Permitted birds include chicken geese ducks and turkeys. Even foods that are allowed must be prepared in a particular way to be considered kosher.

and more than 850 in neck snares including mountain lions river otters pronghorn antelope deer badgers beavers turtles turkeys ravens ducks geese great blue herons and even a golden eagle.

In the course of a single day and night I saw hyacinth and blue-and-yellow macaws brocket deer white-lipped peccary rhea jabiru stork roseate spoonbill wood stork the greater potoo capybara tapir

Flamingos too are highly social and famously nomadic wanderers. Four of the six flamingo species are endangered because of mining

and other threats to their critically important soda lakes where they feed and breed. African Grey Parrots aggregate in tremendous numbers around fruiting trees and at forest openings rich in salts in Central African forests.

Are vultures flamingos parrots and numerous other abundant highly social and mobile species destined to the same fate as the passenger pigeon?

The waterfowl, found mainly in Lake Alaotra in eastern Madagascar, is thought to have been killed off by poaching and the introduction to its habitat of carnivorous fish.

In animals not listed in the FDA order, such as ducks or rabbits, vets will have more discretion to use the drugs.

which are often close to wild ducks and other flu reservoirs.""Proper geographic representation is lacking, says van der Werf,

Waldrappteamiconic ibis shot A bird that had been reared hand by researchers as part of a project to save a rare species of ibis was killed by poachers in Italy on 13 october.

Goja (pictured), a northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), had been trained to migrate from a breeding area in Germany to wintering grounds in Italy

the numbers of birds being transported, the distribution of live-bird markets and their supply routes, waterfowl numbers, land use and human population densities.

density in 2010), pigs (B), chickens (C) and ducks (D) in China and Asia in general.

An international team of researchers compiled maps for Nature showing the population densities of chickens, pigs, ducks and humans in many parts of China and throughout Asia.

47 million domestic ducks and 22 million pigs live within a 50-kilometre radius of each of the 60 H7n9 human cases that had occurred up to 16 april.

pigeons and ducks in live bird markets in Shanghai and Hangzhou making markets the leading suspected source.

Researchers know that H7 flu viruses mainly infect wild birds such as ducks, geese, waders and gulls,

"It s likely wild ducks and geese that are carrying it, he suggests. But this H7n9 virus has not yet been detected in wild birds in the area."

He also co-convenes the Asia-Pacific Working group on Migratory Waterbirds and Avian influenza with the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO.

By contrast, ducks boast large and elaborately coiled penises that can measure about half the length of their bodies2.

They found that chickens initially form penises similar to those of ducks but that on about the ninth day of development, the nascent chicken penis called a genital tubercle stops growing

but the team discovered that many of the same genes that drive penis growth in ducks continued to be expressed strongly in chickens.

Ducks, in particular, act as living mixing bowls for avian viruses. Domestic species encounter a large catalogue of wild-bird viruses,

The researchers collected throat and intestinal swabs from 1, 341 birds, including chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, partridges and quails, plus 1, 006 water and faecal samples from bird markets.

they found H7n9 and H7n7 to be hybrids of wild Eurasian waterfowl strains, such as H7n3 and H11n9.

The scientists think that those viruses swapped genes in domestic ducks before spreading to chickens, where they traded genes with a common chicken virus, H9n2.

Brent Stirton/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013in'Ivory trash'by Brent Stirton, a Kenyan ranger inspects elephants killed by poachers.

Every year, about 400,000 migratory waterbirds also pass through the region, an important stop on their flyway along The americas.

Bà ¥rd Ylvisã Â¥ker and Vegard Ylvisã Â¥ker the folks behind Ylvis describe the vocalizations of various common animals from cats to dogs to ducks to cows

The researchers who gathered at Drake University in Des moines note that Iowa has vacillated between two weather extremes over the past few years.

Ã0. 8 mm/yr. By the way 1. 7 mm a year works out to 6. 7 inches of sea level rise every 100 years. http://ibis

To study how male birds lose their penises the UF researchers examined the embryonic development of birds with penises (ducks and emus) and birds without penises (chicks) among other creatures.

In other birds like ducks and emus that gene stays switched off allowing their penises to grow fully.

certain species of water fowl like ducks have such large phalluses they can exceed the length of the body.

certain species of water fowl like ducks have such large phalluses they can exceed the length of the body...

Ducks retained penises but duck genitalia are optimized mechanically to allow conception only from consensual sex.

Ducks also have a lot of what should probably be called gang rape. Birds rear their young as parents.

either adapt in the way ducks did...or this s

#World's Oldest Primate Fossil Discovered A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton.

That means if you want to hunt deer elk moose antelope ducks geese cougars and now wolves you have to buy a permit.

The Giant Ibis tops the list by this reckoning followed by the Kagu the New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar the Plains-wanderer and the California condor.

I see plainly that Welwitschia will be a case of Barnacles. I have another plant to beg

Along with the sea fan are three new species of worm eels three colorful gobies three nudibanchs two snappers two now-extinct species of sand dollars corals barnacles and two

Ducks geese and swans are waterfowl an order known to scientists as Anseriformes. Hens pheasants partridges and turkeys are game-birds (Galliformes.

Male and female mallards look so different that for many years they were thought to be different species. In other members of the same orders there is little apparent difference in the plumage of males and females.

and differences in plumage in almost 300 members of the Anseriformes and Galiformes orders --and focuses on patterning between male and female birds rather than colour.

but the exquisite patterns of bird plumage such as the spots of the guinea fowl and the barred patterns of ducks and turkeys to just name a few have received much less attention.

By tracing the evolutionary pathways in the dimorphism of 288 species of waterfowl and gamebirds

Dr Simon Gosling from the School of Geography at The University of Nottingham co-authored four papers in this unique global collaboration.

For the project--'Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP)'-Dr Gosling contributed simulations of global river flows to help understand how climate change might impact on global droughts water scarcity and river flooding.

Dr Gosling said: This research and the feature in PNAS highlights what could happen across several sectors

Another paper co-authored by Dr Gosling shows that without reductions in global greenhouse-gas emissions 40 per cent more people are likely to be at risk of absolute water scarcity than would be the case without climate change.

Dr Gosling said: The global-level results are concerning but they hide important regional variations.

Dr Gosling said: More water under climate change is not necessarily always a good thing.

Dr Gosling's 23-volume report Climate: observations projections and impacts commissioned by the Department of energy and Climate Change (DECC) which he jointly led with the UK Met Office addressed an urgent international need for scientific evidence on the impact of climate change to be presented in a consistent format

and returned to her family the other girl ducks were laying eggs so she did the same.

Ragnhild Tønnessen's Phd research project has characterised Influenza a viruses in gulls and ducks in Norway.

Wild birds particularly ducks and gulls are the natural hosts for Influenza a viruses which can cause disease in animals and humans.

A large number of samples gathered by hunters from ducks and gulls were analysed at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute.

and that the virus occurrence was higher in dabbling ducks than in gulls. The virus prevalence was lowest in December.

but not the highly pathogenic H5n1 virus. The complete genetic material from a total of five influenza viruses from mallard and common gull were sequenced and characterized.

However within avian influenza viruses from Eurasia she found that virus genes were exchanged between influenza viruses typically found in gulls and ducks respectively.

Ducks can become infected with influenza virus through consumption of surface water contaminated with faeces shed by virus infected birds.

Most subtypes of influenza virus from ducks can retain their infectivity in water over long periods of time.

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