Gravity-defying Bird Beak Mystery Solved May 16, 2008
11, 1999) Knots (a kind of sandpiper) can locate their favourite food -shellfish- under wet sand by inserting their beak half a centimetre into the sand for a few seconds. Scientists at the NWO's. (Science Daily)
How do baby birdies learn to sing? By babbling May 4, 2008
How do baby birdies learn to sing. By babbling: Scientific American. (Scientific American)
The end of the road Mar 29, 2008
That's how we felt," Dr. Wikelski says. Related Articles Recent Photogallery The hardest part was knocking on strangers' doors at 6 a.m. for permission to find a bird on their property one man brought out his gun. But Dr. Wikelski is driven by a sense of urgency: Thrushes, like many migratory songbirds, are in decline, and no one is sure exactly why, or how best to protect them. SIGN OF SPRING To most Canadians, migration is a spectacle that marks the seasons. We know spring is here, despite the... (Globe and Mail)
Shhh! Seabrook Beach is a secret Sep 2, 2007
There's been minor housing additions, he said, such as Sandpiper Lane on the west side of Route 1A.. But, he said, "There aren't any vacant lots. The west side (of Route 1A) is where the commercial is. Most of the land between Route 286 and the Hampton bridge is already developed and what isn't is marsh.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Bird Sightings May 13, 2007
Other reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area last week included three blue-winged teal, 12 green-winged teal, one American bittern, 20 migrating sharp-shinned hawks, five soras, three upland sandpipers, one whimbrel, one semipalmated sandpiper, eight purple sandpipers, one Caspian tern, two least flycatchers, nine Eastern kingbirds, one fish crow, 30 marsh wrens, 12 brown thrashers, one American pipit, 17 species of wood warblers, including one bay-breasted, one mourning, one hooded... (Boston Globe -- Local)
