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A new study shows that one group of Galápagos yellow warblers responds to intruders more aggressively than others. It adds ...
The odor, however, helps protect the bird by keeping predators (and people) away. Often mistaken for a broken tree branch, the tawny frogmouth is a master of camouflage. Native to Australia ...
Whenever the hawk heard the pedestrian signal, it flew to a branch in a tree down the street and out of sight of the feasting birds, Dinets said he observed. It then used the cover of the cars ...
Sitting high in the lush, vibrant treetops of the Costa Rican cloud forest, the resplendent quetzal slowly scans its favorite buffet tree for the perfect bite-sized avocado. Once it finds the right ...
The moorland curlew, one of Britain’s most threatened birds, inhabits these landscapes ... camouflaged on a river bank, holding a branch in the hope of attracting a resident kingfisher to ...
A mosquito-borne disease freshly arrived in Britain has spread large distances, with scientists racing to understand the risks to wild birds ... and singing from the branches of trees on summer ...
She fed all the birds, dogs, and cats," she added ... told the Kyiv Independent that postal workers were ensuring the branch would be up and running by tomorrow. "We can’t stop our work ...
This remarkable bill can grow to half the bird’s body length and is a highly effective tool for reaching fruits on distant branches. The Toco Toucan plays ... in flight, the Pantanal, Brazil. By ...
Here we describe Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766) nests located during a telemetry study of coatis in the Brazilian Pantanal. Coati nests were all "bird-like", that is, open nests having a semispherical ...
Several studies have highlighted the importance of bird dropping as a suitable substrate for the growth of yeasts and filamentous fungi ( Elhariri et al., 2015; Mendes et al., 2014; Chryssanthou et al ...
A flight from Minneapolis to Madison, Wisconsin was delayed Saturday after two birds tried to stow away on the aircraft. The ...
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). A visit to the northern Pantanal begins with a journey along the dirt Transpantaneira Road to the gateway town of Porto Jofre.