Birds and Nature

Energy vs. environment: is "green" energy good for wildlife and hunting?(THE Outfitter: HUNTING NEWS, TIPS & INSIGHT)
Petersen's Hunting; 12/1/2009; 1616 words; ...miles per hour, are deadly to birds. However, a number of studies have examined bird strikes and have found wind...towers. "The bigger issue with birds, especially grassland birds, is the impact on the habitat...the Oklahoma chapter of The Nature Conservancy: "Prairie chickens...

Why do animals, especially males, have so many different colors?(Report)
NewsRx Science; 11/22/2009; 1204 words; Why do so many animal species - including fish, birds and insects - display such rich diversity in coloration and...an evolutionary process that is probably very prevalent in nature but which has largely been overlooked. We tested for shifts...

Data point to some improvements in China's environment.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 716 words; ...marine ecosystems is "still very severe;" mammal, fish, and bird species across the country are under increasing threat; and...trend," Xu and his colleagues write. The area devoted to nature reserves is large and has grown, although many of the reserves...

New dinosaur species from Montana.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 847 words; ...keratinous sheathing on it as found in modern turtle shells and bird beaks. In his new reconstruction, Parsons suggests that Tatankacephalus...illustrator whose images have appeared on the covers of Science, Nature, Time and Newsweek. The publication of Tatankacephalus may...

Scientists at University of Sheffield publish research in biology.
Science Letter; 11/17/2009; 841 words; ...analyses have failed to generate robust predictions about the nature of those constraints, nor differentiated between the viscosity...Biological Sciences (The evolution of cooperative breeding in birds: kinship, dispersal and life history. Philosophical Transactions...