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This nest switching has been seen in seabirds like gulls and terns as well as storks, raptors, egrets and herons.

This lack of discriminatory ability is seen particularly starkly in Lake erie's ring-billed gulls. Nest invasions are common,

half as many of their own chicks grow to fledging age than the gulls that did not adopt.

Seagulls, for example, now often live in cities hundreds of kilometres from the coast. As their traditional food oe fish oe becomes scarcer,

whenever even a seabird attempted to approach the floating calf, it would immediately be chased away by the other dolphins.

sometimes the first reaction is to remove the animals from the equation, even with native species like the double-crested cormorant.

The cormorant didnt make this Top Ten list, from Daily Finance, an AOL site. The site based its list on animals

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

The Oriental darter is a species that once nested around Lake Amik in Hatay; however, they have not been observed in the region

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#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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</p><p>The Laysan albatross named Wisdom thought to be at least 62 years old hatched a healthy-looking chick on Sunday (Feb 3) according to a statement from the U s. Department of the interior.

which is famous for its Laysan albatross population.</</p><p>Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26868-oldest-bird-hatches-chick. html target=blank>Oldest Known Wild Bird Hatches Healthy Chick

In comparison a white mangrove tree at the same so-called terminal age (123 years for mangroves) is less than half as likely to die than the average adult of its species. The Southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) a seabird becomes more likely to die with age.

#Fighting to Save an Endangered Bird With Vomit A psychological warfare program centered on vomit could help save the marbled murrelet an endangered seabird that nests in California's old-growth redwood forests.

Penguins have nothing on the murrelet. They're a seabird like a puffin and they have this crazy lifestyle that's like a living link between the old-growth redwood forests

and the Pacific ocean said Keith Bensen a biologist at Redwood National park. It's strange to have an animal with webbed feet in the forest he said.

The overpopulation also menaces federally protected species such as snowy plovers desert tortoises and California least terns the jays eat their eggs too.

Steller's jays don't seek out murrelet eggs. But when the birds circle picnic areas near murrelet nests some discover the chicken-size eggs make a fine treat.

The seabird doesn't actually build a nest instead choosing a flat branch covered in cozy moss and needles with cover to hide from airborne predators.

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

The Laysan albatross named Wisdom thought to be at least 62 years old hatched a healthy-looking chick on Sunday (Feb 3) according to a statement from the U s. Department of the interior.

As Wisdom rewrites the record books she provides new insights into the remarkable biology of seabirds said Bruce Peterjohn head of the bird banding program at the U s. Geological Survey in the statement.

Laysan albatross have a wingspan of 6 feet (2 meters) and fly about 50000 miles a year as adults.

All but two of the 21 species of albatross are threatened with extinction according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The tsunami killed an estimated 2000 adult albatrosses and about 110000 chicks in the wildlife refuge.

Endangered Chicks Emerge from Nest This could be the first and last high-definition video of a Spoon-billed sandpiper chick emerging from its nest.

The Cornell Lab sent videographer Gerrit Vyn to Chukotka Russia to document the sandpipers'sounds

The Spoon-billed sandpiper is one of the most remarkable little birds On earth and it may go extinct before most people even realize it was here John Fitzpatrick executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology said in the statement.

birds and a primary stopping site for Spoon-billed sandpipers. And shorebirds are a food source for people living along the coastal mudflats of Myanmar

and other nearby countries the Cornell Lab said in a statement Documenting a disappearing species Common foraging behaviors here on the breeding grounds are surprisingly different from the way they feed on the wintering grounds according to the Cornell lab. On the breeding grounds the birds feed on insects

Another video by Vyn shows a mated Spoon-billed sandpiper pair foraging along the edge of a snowmelt pond in Chukotka.

Vyn also captured rarely seen courtship behavior between adult Spoon-billed sandpipers. This video shot during the first few days of a pair's seasonal courtship includes an attempted copulation and a nest scrape display.

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper population in Russian has been tracked since 1977 when a survey estimated 2500 breeding pairs in Chukotka.

Some people feel that watching scientists bring back the great auk and putting it back on a breeding colony would be very inspiring Zimmer told Livescience.

The great auk was the Northern hemisphere's version of the penguin. The large flightless birds went extinct in the mid-19th century.

That ruled out poop pellets or pelican regurgitation as a possible source he said. There were no hints of layers.

They say kelp gulls at Peninsula Valdes land on the backs of the cetaceans to eat their skin and blubber.

#Shorebirds Adopt Baby Duckling, Cuteness Ensues A family of long-legged shorebirds adopted a fuzzy baby duckling this month in California's San francisco bay.

U s. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Jarred Barr discovered the duckling among a brood of downy avocet chicks on July 2.

It was just following right behind the adult avocet and chicks like it was another avocet Barr told Live Science.

The blended family was foraging in wetlands at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve part of the massive South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

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

We don't know how the duckling got separated from its family but they were all feeding already

See Adorable Photos of the Baby Shorebirds Avocets have upturned long bills that they skim back and forth in the water to catch food.

The tallest of the world's four avocet species growing up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) tall the avocet is equipped with spindly gray legs designed for wading in fresh or saltwater wetlands.

Bird watchers Barr helps monitor mercury levels in avocets and other shorebirds at marshes and ponds throughout the salt ponds restoration project.

and see how they're reacting said Alex Hartman a USGS wildlife biologist at the Western Ecological Research center in Dixon California who helps oversee the shorebird-monitoring project.

Plucking a few feathers from shorebird hatchlings reveals how much mercury was in their eggs before they hatched.

The researchers track the health of American avocets black-necked stilts and Forster's terns among other birds.

The biologists occasionally find eggs from other species such as terns in avocet nests Hartman said.

And it's not uncommon for avocets to adopt chicks from other avocets Hartman said.

Avocets have sat also on stilt eggs and raised the hatchlings as if they were their own chicks.

But this is the first time the USGS biologists have discovered a duck-avocet adoption. Hartman thinks it's likely the duckling was separated from its family after it hatched

and glommed on to the avocets. This is cross-species and it's really cross-order.

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

Both ducklings and avocets are resourceful babies however with the capability to feed on their own soon after hatching.

Explore. org is also operating a live puffin cam. The bird that can be seen in the burrow is incubating an egg that is expected to hatch in Mid-june.

Puffins were wiped out in Maine by hunters and egg snatchers but the National Audubon Society's Project Puffin reintroduced the birds in the 1970s.

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#King penguins'Genes Explain Ancient Island-Hopping King penguins colonized a string of islands north of Antarctica about 15000 years ago after glaciers melted

The balmier weather gave the penguins two things they needed to thrive: ice-free pockets of land on which to raise their chicks

The King penguins of Possession Island Island living King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) are the second-largest penguins in the world

But the biggest breeding grounds for king penguins are on the Crozet Islands a string of islands in the southern reaches of the Indian ocean.

In the summer the penguins dive for tiny lanternfishes about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the archipelago returning every three to five days to feed their chicks.

In the winter the penguins venture about 621 miles (1000 km) to the fringes of Antarctica to forage for food though exactly what they eat is said a mystery study co-author CÃ line Le Bohec a polar ecologist at the Centre Scientifique

Penguin-egg swap To understand how the flightless birds first reached the Crozet Islands Le Bohec

and her colleagues snuck onto the edges of the penguins'breeding colonies quietly taking two-to three-week-old chicks from right under their parents'noses

Outside the colony the researchers measured the baby penguins'weights as well as the beaks flippers and feet.

Past studies have shown that the king penguin colonies have adjusted to these human intrusions. Migration history The team analyzed about 65000 snippets of DNA from eight king penguins.

Because the base pairs or letters in DNA mutate at a slow but somewhat predictable rate over time calculating how many of these stretches of DNA contain the same letter sequence can reveal how long ago the population expanded.

The team found that most of the genetic regions were very similar in the penguins indicating that they originated from a very small initial population.

Future bleak The new model underscores conditions the penguins need to thrive which could help researchers predict how penguins will adapt to climate change.

But the future doesn't look so hot for the blubbery birds. Current models predict that unmitigated climate change will push the polar front south taking the penguins'summer staple of lanternfishes farther from the islands.

This will make it hard for the penguins to live on the islands as they need to feed their chicks frequently in the summer

and can only swim so far to do that Le Bohec said. If we don't change our human behavior

I think in 200 years it will be quite nasty for king penguins Le Bohec said. The study was published today (June 10) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Follow Tia Ghose on Twitter and Google+.

David Bowman receives funding from ARC NASA TERN and NERP. This article was published originally on The Conversation.

The 63-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom was spotted taking care of her newborn earlier this month on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.

which claimed 2000 of her fellow adult albatrosses and about 110000 chicks in the Midway wildlife refuge an island habitat in the middle of the North Pacific.

despite the threats that albatross face at sea refuge biologist Pete Leary said in a statement.

For example flying fish eggs are a key part of the albatross diet but flying fish sometimes attach their eggs to bits of discarded plastic floating at sea Leary explained.

Though the seafaring albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) lays only one egg a year mothers spend much of their year incubating

#Stress Makes Antarctic Penguins Less-Attentive Parents Stress induced by changes in Antarctic sea ice may cause adult male Adã lie penguins to be less attentive to their chicks and may increase chick mortality according to a new study.

A certain degree of stress and the related release of hormones can benefit penguins and other animals by increasing alertness and reallocating energy reserves to react to stressors.

Adã lie penguins#medium-size cousins of emperor penguins common along much of the Antarctic coastline spend lots of time on sea ice searching for the krill that they feed on in the water below.

In recent years changes in the distribution of sea ice have forced the penguins to travel farther

Adã lie penguins Cope with Changing Sea Ice Conditions. Changed ice more stress As the distribution of sea ice is projected to continue to change throughout the century as climate change progresses researchers based at the University of Strasbourg in France were interested in determining how this environmental stress may impact the future population of Adã lies on the southernmost continent.

The pellets released the hormone steadily over the course of three weeks until they degraded completely within the penguins'bodies.

The researchers observed the penguins throughout those three weeks and for several weeks afterward to determine the full extent of the hormone's effects.

But the new findings do add to the growing body of evidence suggesting penguin populations may shrink with future changes in sea ice.

On eastern Antarctica's Petrel Island not a single chick has survived the 2013-2014 summer season among the 20000 breeding pairs that live there Thierry said.

The loss of those chicks underscores the importance of follow-up studies regarding how environmental change will influence penguin population growth

The team next plans to attach GPS units to the penguins to track their behavior

This will help reveal how the penguins spend their time away from their chicks and could help pinpoint nuanced behavioral changes associated with elevated levels of stress hormones Thierry said.

She is also publicity director of Riverhead Books a division of Penguin Random House. The views expressed are those of the author

and lower reproduction rates for seabirds the researchers said. In Photos: The Wonders of the Deep Sea But the weather pattern that causes the coastal upwelling also blocks storms from coming ashore.

These organisms are the backbone of the marine ecosystem and support huge populations of fish and seabirds.

To determine how upwelling influenced marine life the researchers used data on yearly fish population growth since the 1940s along with data on seabird egg laying and the survival of baby seabirds since the 1970s.

and seabird statistics the researchers found that years with weak upwelling and lots of tree growth correlated with years

when fish and seabird populations suffered. Based on tree ring measurements taken by David Stahle a tree ring expert

Only Zookeepers Get to Feed the Penguins (Op-Ed) Just the fact that my career is not a regular office job that every day is different and exciting makes me love what

#Rains Spurred by Climate Change Killing Penguin Chicks Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina a trend scientists attribute to climate change

From 1983 through 2010 researchers based at the University of Washington in Seattle monitored a colony of roughly 400000 Magellanic penguins living halfway up the coast of Argentina on a peninsula called Punta Tombo.

Each year the researchers visited penguin nests once or twice a day from Mid-september through late February to assess the overall status of the colony

Gallery of Magellanic Penguin Colony The resulting data set provides one of the longest-ever records of a single penguin colony.

David Ainley a senior wildlife ecologist at ecological consulting firm H. T. Harvey & Associates who studies Antarctic penguin colonies says that aside from giving Magellanic chicks the chills rain can also damage the burrows

I think that penguin pairs that have good burrows probably wouldn't suffer much of an effect

Wayne Trivelpiece an Antarctic penguin researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric administration's Southwest Fisheries science Center based in La jolla Calif. agrees that climate change is a serious threat to these and other penguin populations around the world.

He has spent nearly the past 40 years studying penguins in Antarctica and said he has seen also a decline in populations that he feels comfortable attributing to the indirect effects of climate change.

The work in question was done in 1947 by the Dutch researcher Niko Tinbergen on the begging behaviour of herring-gull chicks.

Adult gulls have a red spot on their lower bill. Tinbergen who shared the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973,

but by the time of his books The Study of Instinct (1951) and The Herring gull's World (1953),

Tinbergen did other experiments with gull chicks showing for example, that they will peck even at a disembodied red spot on a stick

Events Pelican recovery The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis pictured) is being removed from a list of threatened and endangered species under the US Endangered Species Act after the government declared it officially recovered.

Pelican populations were devastated by hunting, habitat destruction and the pesticide DDT, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service says there are now more than 650,000 in the United states, the Caribbean and Latin america.

any given food source (such as krill) can support a lot more biomass in a whale than in a small animal such as a penguin.

The IUCN list also confirmed the extinction of the Alaotra grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus), 25 years after the last confirmed sighting.

Janet Woodcock, the FDA's top drug-approval official, says that the difference extends to all categories of drug.

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

Mednyi Island foxes subsist by hunting sea birds and scavenging seal carcasses. Because pollutants such as mercury are known to accumulate in marine animals

The shrinking of mudflats also threatens the hundreds of thousands of migratory shorebirds that rely on the reserve as a stopover site.

âÂ#Âoea number of independent analyses have identified tropospheric changes that appear to be associated with the solar cycle (van Loon and Shea 2000;

Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins but I guess we can. You can do it with any sort of satellite cell from an animal.

The leftovers were taken home for Dr. Post's children. well with any new product lets see what happens to the first few people who eat this

#Lifting James'Giant Peach Would Have required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Saidah physics: Taking the world's greatest mysteries and turning them into cold hard facts.

In the story orphaned James seeks refuge with a bunch of anthropomorphized insects inside a huge stone fruit which is toted then across the Atlantic ocean by a flock of seagulls.

In fact 2425907 seagulls would actually be needed according to the students'research paper. Emily Jane Watkinson Maria-Theresia Walach Daniel Staab and Zach Rogerson calculated the mass of the peach

This greatly exceeds the carrying capacity of 501 Common Gulls the students write. To determine this they modeled the seagulls as airfoils

which you can think of basically like an airplane wing. These curved shapes create the force known as lift.

A common gull can provide 2. 02 N of lift the students write. For a peach of the dimensions calculated it would not be possible to fly such a heavy object with the assistance of such a diminutive number of birds they conclude.

Considering the quantity of Gulls that peach should be covered completely like icing on a cake with bird do do lol!

but they give a gull count to seven digits s

#Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine Conventional Calculatingartist and cycling enthusiast Gregory de Gouveia based in Chico California has built bike sculptures before.

I meet Lary Reeves a University of Florida entomologist and graduate student I've come to follow around.

Welcome to the jungle Reeves says. We all share a Cusquena a ubiquitous Peruvian beer that

During the eight days that I am here Reeves and Pomerantz locate and photograph scores of these spiders

and Reeves and colleagues plan to formally describe the species though it remains nameless. This Peruvian Cyclosa species was found in September 2012 by entomologist Phil Torres.

Six months earlier while researching butterfly diversity Reeves discovered a similar spider in the jungles of the Philippines that likewise makes spider-shaped decoys in its web albeit of a slightly different shape.

and now Reeves has shifted his research to the Peruvian Cyclosa since among other reasons it is easier to get to--all things being relative.

and hasn't been reported until recently--I have no idea how people have not done this before says Reeves who is also a graduate fellow with the National Science Foundation.

and the world expert on helicopter damselflies as Reeves puts it. Over the course of my trip and Reeves's month in the jungle he goes about laying the groundwork to test this hypothesis

and makes several interesting discoveries. First Reeves devised a method to collect the webs (which he doesn't want to share in detail for proprietary concerns) that he will use in the future to collect the animals and their silken firmaments and expose them to damselflies.

The idea is to see if the winged creatures pluck more spiders from webs where the decoys have been removed--that would provide evidence that the decoys are meant indeed to scare off the insects.

--and hanging out with Reeves and Pomerantz who are mad for understanding the intracices of animal life here especially the infinite strangeness of small beasts like spiders--nothing seems banal.

At one point an ornery curious scarlet macaw flies onto Reeves's shoulder and begins gnawing at the tooth of a Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (a type of dinosaur) on his necklace.

One afternoon Reeves and Pomerantz are photographing the spiders this time back in the lab

Reeves takes aim with his Canon 7d which boasts a powerful macro lens. From time to time Pomerantz gently corrals the spider with the tip of a small paintbrush to prevent it from running off this white plane

so Reeves can get a good shot. Wait a second Reeves says as he snaps a photo of a spider and zooms in on the camera's screen.

That's a male! This is a surprise. Before Reeves and colleagues had only found females making these decoys.

In other members of the family Araneidae (the taxonomic family that includes orb-weavers) once males are sexually mature they pretty much hang out in the webs of the females

Those aren't eggs Reeves says as he zooms in on the photo he's just taken.

To learn more about the web-building activities of this species Reeves and Pomerantz place a couple in two newly-devised observation boxes that force the spiders to build webs parallel to the clear plastic sides perfect for viewing by humans.

Reeves has also found out that the spiders don't tolerate artificial stuff in their webs.

and Reeves thinks that's because of the romanticized idea behind it that people are thinking these spiders are so clever that they're building these structures that look like larger spiders.

The spiders are dummies Reeves continues using term he often applies to his beloved arachnids with bemused affection

On the last night that we are both there Reeves is still up photographing insects after the electricity in the center has turned off.

It will be awhile before Reeves and co. will be able to sort through all of the data

But Reeves thinks that's unlikely. Only the future will tell. As is often the case with fieldwork obstacles are an everyday occurrence (for example time

If we had a lab specimen it would go a long way Reeves says. Until then the jungle is an open book

Reeves--and Pomerantz--will be back. t

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