Traffic noise is making these Galápagos birds more aggressive
The Galápagos yellow warblers on the more populous island of Santa Cruz also increased the duration of their song when ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph11h
Traffic noise causes birds to have ‘road rage’
Birds develop "road rage" due to traffic noise, reveals a new study. Researchers found that native species in the Galápagos ...
Earth.com13h
Some birds get 'road rage' when exposed to traffic noise
Birds adjust their songs and territorial behavior to compete with traffic sounds, even in remote island environments.
The Billings Gazette2d
Smoke detectors in the sky: Will wildfire affect bird behavior?
As thick clouds of smoke rolled across Los Angeles in early January, Allison Shultz opened a freezer and took out a stash of pristine white pigeon feathers.
Why tickets to NCAA Tournament's shining moments are so hard to find
"A lot of NCAA Tournament tickets can be confusing, and fans might have a hard time remembering what game they saw," said ...
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H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, UNC Charlotte research finds
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants’ immunoprotein interactions – developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte – reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is ...
How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama's dense rainforest, the bird ...
University of Colorado Boulder5d
Small bird, big trick: How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird biologists didn’t know what they were ...
3 takeaways from the Revolution’s 2-1 loss vs. New York City FC
Here are three takeaways from the New England Revolution's 2-1 loss vs. New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night.
Here are 11 great NCAA Tournament men's basketball games played in Providence
Madness has come through downtown on 11 previous occasions, starting with a 1975 trip to the Providence Civic Center.
Did Mercury's Diana Taurasi, Seattle's Sue Bird almost team up to join this WNBA team?
Diana Taurasi played 20 years in the WNBA for the Phoenix Mercury. Seattle Storm legend Sue Bird played 19 years before she ...
National Audubon Society14d
Birds-of-Paradise Feathers Are More Than Flashy—They Glow
A team of ichthyologists, who previously found biofluorescence ... that “excites” the molecules that cause fluorescence. Then, they viewed the birds through yellow goggles that filter the light and ...