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• Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of bird bones

  13 May 2013

  

   

• Yellow pigment in penguin feathers is chemically distinct, spectroscopic studies reveal

  22 April 2013

  

   

• Penguins once thrived in Africa; one endangered species lives there today

  3 April 2013

  

   

• Poison dart frog toxins best suited for deterring biting arthropods, research reveals

  26 March 2013

  

   

• Small migratory birds age faster in stressful places, study reveals

  26 February 2013

  

   

• With no credit to Cupid, white-naped crane couples remain faithful for life

  13 February 2013

  

   

• Cats kill 2.4 billion birds annually

  31 January 2013

  

   

• Western Mottled Owl

  28 November 2012

  

   

• New count reveals scrub-jay on Santa Cruz Island is among rarest bird species in the U.S.

  14 November 2012

  

   

• New Book: “Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide”

  18 October 2012

  

   

• Today’s domestic turkeys are genetically distinct from wild ancestors

  9 October 2012

  

   

• As robins disperse, West Nile mosquitoes switch diet to humans: Q&A with Smithsonian ornithologist Peter Marra

  14 September 2012

  

   

• New study determines bill size in birds varies according to climate

  30 July 2012

  

   

• Scientists find that rain may not always be a welcome thing to waterbirds

  8 June 2012

  

   

• Eighty percent of urban fledgling catbirds killed by predators

  17 May 2012

  

   

• Invasive pythons in Florida now stealing bird eggs straight from the nest

  6 April 2012