It turns out stuffing nearly 100 exotic songbirds into a suitcase is a good way to end up with a suitcase full of dead songbirds.
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Climate change is pushing songbirds and springtime out of sync.
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Let songbirds herald my waking life when you kissed me!
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For both people and songbirds, communication begins in the brain.
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They witness lyrical clouds of songbirds in the spring migration.
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It's too late for most songbirds and too early for owls.
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They destroy songbirds and raptors, all of whom are federally protected.
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Studies of songbirds have also uncovered similar complexity in their communication.
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Roberts' team isn't the only group using songbirds as a model for human speech development—scientists at Florida State University recently obtained a $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to expand their work with songbirds.
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Timing is everything for migratory songbirds chirping away in North America's trees.
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It will also prevent large bully birds from scaring away smaller songbirds.
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In our lab we're studying the neural basis of behavior of songbirds.
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Patrick Cohen, I know immediately, is talking about a nest of songbirds.
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The air hums with the sound of cicadas and a chorus of songbirds.
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In the 1980s, scientists found evidence that adult songbirds produced new brain cells.
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In the evening, consider a visit to the museum's live venue, Songbirds South.
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"A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is sure to be a buzzy release.
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Turns out not only are these two certified songbirds, they're also perfectly matched lovebirds.
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I asked him to speak up because the songbirds were chirping too loudly outside.
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Still, the outlook might not be entirely dire for songbirds and other avian species.
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Songbirds, which form lifelong mating pairs, have brain systems perfectly tuned to fit together.
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In the spring and fall migrations, they will even devour the exhausted songbirds themselves.
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The songbirds, mostly absent during the extended warm spell, once again swarmed our feeders.
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Whereas the songbirds need forests, the shorebirds require undisturbed and productive mudflats and tundra.
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In modern songbirds, the fourth toe points in the same direction as the other toes.
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It would threaten butterflies, the plants they pollinate, and the many songbirds that eat caterpillars.
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Europe's migratory songbirds can't fight off diseases as well as African species that stay put.
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YOUNG ADULT: 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games 0)' by Suzanne Collins
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Trilobites Whales and songbirds produce sounds resembling human music, and chimpanzees and crows use tools.
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N.Y.C. Nature The northern cardinal is one of New York City's most brilliantly colored songbirds.
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Gamblers set the songbirds against each other and bet on their voices, according to the complaint.
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Authorities say a passenger arriving from Guyana on Saturday had the songbirds in a duffel bag.
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Somehow 32 songbirds all perfectly harmonising with one another, like a Disney opening scene on turbo.
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Animals like parrots and songbirds have long gotten credit for copying human sounds and mastering melodies.
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The songbirds, often smuggled from Guyana, can fetch between $230,203 and $220,21890 each, federal authorities said.
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Most songbirds in Europe, including those that breed there, descended from African ancestors, the researchers found.
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That's because songbirds, which form lifelong mating pairs, have brain systems perfectly tuned to fit together.
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In fact, pokeweed is an important food source for myriad songbirds, including cardinals, catbirds and mockingbirds.
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In Hawaii, a single ancestor exploded into at least 54 species of colorful songbirds called honeycreepers.
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Most songbirds have 12 tail feathers, and for DNA-collecting purposes, you'll want to pluck two.
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They interact with pollinators, songbirds, insects, mammals, not to mention human communities that depend on them.
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Wealthy diners in swallowtail coats feasted on small songbirds soaked in Armagnac, flambéed, and then eaten whole.
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We have hawks, owls, songbirds, snakes, turtles, possums, foxes, coyotes, armadillos, flying squirrels, chipmunks, you name it.
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Certain songbirds have a pretty human-sounding way of learning their special tunes: They listen to their fathers.
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The air smells of baked earth, and is filled with the noise of songbirds hidden in the canopy.
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Their biomass was seven times that of the 30 million songbirds flying from Britain to Africa each autumn.
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Until recently, for instance, G.P.S. tags and radio transmitters were far too heavy for migratory songbirds to carry.
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They arouse human care and protectiveness even for a species that massacres songbirds and poses other environmental threats.
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In the mountain forests of Hawaii, native honeycreepers—small songbirds found nowhere else in the world—are dying.
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We take a look at how songbirds mated for life create space for each other in their brains.
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Q&A Q. Do the songbirds on the wire outside my window listen when I practice the violin?
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When he did, the press was also, as I'd expected, a sweet chorus of songbirds in fluting ecstasy.
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A pair of exceedingly rare and incredibly beautiful songbirds have just arrive at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, England.
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Scientists are well aware that certain birds, such as swifts, songbirds, sandpipers, and seabirds, don't get nearly enough sleep.
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Among a small flock of songbirds, a black-throated blue warbler ate a green caterpillar from a striped maple.
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These small songbirds are a common sight across most of the country and are always a treat to watch.
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The songbirds, their fledglings hungry from a long night of fasting, are most active and most garrulous at sunrise.
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Trilobites If Cupid wanted to make two songbirds fall in love, he'd have better luck aiming at their brains.
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And while these systems are well-developed and finely tuned in both sexes of songbirds, the wiring is different.
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Notably, 90 percent of the total losses were experienced by widespread songbirds such as sparrows, warblers, blackbirds, and finches.
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This includes rodents like the dwarf gerbil and songbirds such as the white-browed sparrow-weaver, according to the researchers.
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Eleven different species of songbirds were studied, including mountain chickadees, western blue birds, house wrens, and the white-breasted nuthatch.
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Now, ornithologists from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania are using drones as flying ears to monitor songbirds in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Some male American songbirds, at the end of the breeding season, the lower parts of the brain basically gets recycled.
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While jays and other large backyard birds can be fun to watch, they tend to aggressively chase away smaller songbirds.
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Last year a study published in Nature found that climate change significantly disrupts the migratory patterns of nine familiar songbirds.
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Many more songbirds are around, and the Lakota people who live there have their traditional source of meat once more.
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Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying?
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And where there are no insects, there are also no tree frogs, no toads, no turtles, no bats, no songbirds.
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Oregon State University analyze songbirds' chirping, treating certain noises as a "canary in a coal mine" for larger ecological issues.
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In a fairytale wedding, the tablescapes are set up in a snap of the magic fingers and songbirds style your hair.
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It is funny, because the research is on female songbirds and a lot of my work has been on encouraging girls.
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COME wintertime thousands of garden warblers, pied flycatchers, and bobolinks—all tiny songbirds—will cross the equator heading south for sunnier climes.
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An avid collector himself, Gill has been named ambassador of the new Songbirds Guitar Museum, which opens this weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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The black smoke that pours out of it has turned his white songbirds in a cage on the wall a sooty grey.
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Researchers found 10 new species and subspecies of songbirds off the coast of Sulawesi, with distinct songs and genetics from known birds.
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One might argue that seeing Baby Bey jump around on stage with future Destiny's Child songbirds Kelly Rowland and LaTavia Roberson is priceless.
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For the study, Gutiérrez-Ibáñez and his team looked at brain samples from nearly 100 birds, including chickens, songbirds, waterfowl, owls, and parrots.
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A great horned owl's diet is as broad as its habitat: frogs and scorpions, other owls, songbirds, bats, rats, house cats, even skunks.
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When spring arrives, the adults feed these young a steady diet of migratory songbirds, awakening mammals, and their inexperienced pups, poults and fledglings.
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He has also discovered that activity patterns in the brains of sleeping songbirds match patterns that appear during the day while they're singing.
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The British colonialists in charge hated the sound of Sydney's birds enough to import songbirds like common starlings to soothe their tender ears.
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Unlike so many of our native songbirds, cardinals do not migrate, nor do they change the color of their plumage according to season.
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Federal agents arrested 49-year-old Kurtis Law Tuesday after he allegedly brought 93 Asian songbirds into the US via a flight from Vietnam.
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Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet (Flickr)Regardless of your opinion on monogamy, it's a trait found across many species, from songbirds to fish to many humans.
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A recent study by Dr. O'Connor and her colleagues examined the genealogy and immune responses of about 1,300 species of songbirds from both continents.
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Dr. O'Connor began by looking at the evolutionary history and relationships between European and African songbirds, including data on their current ranges and relationships.
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It has songbirds and garden-chomping deer and at least one garter snake that has been camping out in the Amessés' yard for years.
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Better management of our forests in Canada, the U.S. and south of the border will be the main antidote to our declining migrant songbirds.
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Songbirds can tell the difference between their song and that of a closely related species from the time they are young, but it's unclear how.
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As it turns out, songbirds make for an ideal test case because so much of their lives revolve around the relatively arbitrary behavior of singing.
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Until something is done, though, it's likely that cowbirds will continue to prey on the songbirds of the prairies, with no benefit to other species.
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BirdLife says as many as 2.3 million songbirds were killed last year in Cyprus, a stopover on a key migratory route between Europe and Africa.
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Fewer than 500 black-winged mynas remain in the wild in Indonesia, but each year more of the songbirds are captured and sold as pets.
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In this riveting fever dream of a play, which opened on Wednesday night, the three characters we meet are the human equivalents of caged songbirds.
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Authorities at the British bases have in recent years cleared low-lying forest areas planted by locals to lure songbirds and Cypriot authorities have conducted raids.
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But they provided shade for us and the chickens, housed songbirds, and they blocked the sight line from the alley into our yard and back porch.
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Harbingers of warm, sunny days — baseballs, returning songbirds, carousel animals — will all fly at the park this weekend in a celebration of the start of spring.
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What can it mean that a few mussels, some snails we've never heard of, obscure crayfish in marginal headwaters and some island-confined songbirds are vanishing?
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The Gulf Coast of Texas in late April is a haven for songbirds, as are Magee Marsh in Ohio and Point Pelee in Ontario in May.
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What can it mean that a few mussels, some snails we've never heard of, obscure crayfish in marginal headwaters and some island-confined songbirds are vanishing?
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Researchers even conducted experiments with songbirds in one building, Steward said, to make sure the cloud's powder would not be toxic if inhaled by area avians.
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GIF: T. E. Martin/GizmodoRadio transmitters were placed on eight species of the songbirds to see if they were still alive seven days after leaving the nest.
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Going into the experiment, the researchers knew that raccoons on British Columbia's Gulf Islands were devastating songbirds on land and intertidal crabs and fish in the ocean.
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Wilson said he had the idea to use drones to listen to songbirds when he was studying Cerulean Warblers in the area just a few seasons earlier.
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Take, for instance, songbirds, many of which migrate north to Canada and the US to feast on the burst of energy supplied by spring, and its bugs.
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" The studio Lionsgate announced in June that it was developing a prequel movie based on series author Suzanne Collins' upcoming book, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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So far this year, agents have discovered 326 songbirds being smuggled through 16 major airports across the nation, according to the United States Customs and Border Protection.
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Moreover, biologists say that urban coyotes actually benefit humans by eating rodents like rats, which can spread disease, and by culling feral cats, which prey on songbirds.
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We need new crops of professionals trained in field biology and ecology to focus on important but less charismatic or commercially valued creatures than songbirds and honeybees.
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For example, songbirds that migrate between North America and South America seem to have done the opposite of African species, with northern ancestors colonizing the equatorial south.
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For songbirds that form bonds with members of the same sex for life, songs, though still important message bearers, may be less important for finding a match.
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We found ourselves ducking under branches laden with bright pink peach blossoms and stopping to marvel at the songbirds that flitted ahead of us on the trail.
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This study and previous works that examined the vocal communications of sperm whales and songbirds show us that humans aren't so unique in the animal kingdom after all.
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But the stimuli had no effect whatsoever on passerine birds, such as finches, songbirds, and sparrows, which isn't a complete surprise, given that they have different visual systems.
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Scholastic revealed the title and cover art for "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" on Friday and unveiled a huge banner for fans at New York Comic Con.
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Intimate in size, his series "Under The Hood," depicts the ritual of consuming Ortolan songbirds, a French delicacy, as an act of delicate gluttony with endless metaphorical associations.
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In this pietra dura table, in the booth of a Paris dealership, strips of yellow chalcedony frame flowers, fruit, and songbirds crafted out of agate and lapis lazuli.
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Many of Craven's portraits depict songbirds, reflected in titles like "Hit Song with Clouds, 2001," which features a small orange-breasted bluebird, presumably singing a top ten tune.
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This primeval landscape hosts an astounding array of animals, too, including rare, endemic frogs and marsupials, and songbirds whose dawn choruses are an acoustic window into deep time.
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"It shows yet again how smart corvid songbirds can be even if they have a very different organization of their brains compared to primates and us humans," said Nieder.
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The elk were so scared of the wolves that they ate fewer shrubs, allowing the plants to regrow, which in turn allowed species like songbirds and beavers to recolonize.
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As recently as 85033, songbirds were still dying in a residential neighborhood of St. Louis, right at the gates of the Velsicol Chemical Corporation, a major manufacturer of DDT.
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In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers report that hundreds of North American bird populations — from songbirds like meadowlarks to backyard favorites like sparrows — are thinning.
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Many bird-watchers bought them because the marshes and waterways saved for waterfowl also provide crucial habitat for migrating songbirds and shorebirds, not to mention resident frogs and otters.
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Recent research has also found that songbirds are more susceptible to meeting such ends, suggesting that they may unwittingly lure one another to their death with their lilting calls.
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"The biggest difference between male and female brains of the same species is found in songbirds," said Sarah Woolley, a neuroscientist who studies finches at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute.
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In her leaping, tree-climbing youth, I took down my feeders and emptied my birdbath, determined not to invite songbirds to believe this yard would make a good nursery.
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During the first half of the 20th century, hunters became deeply concerned about declines in duck populations every bit as severe as those we're witnessing among common songbirds today.
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Now surrounded by a pleasant garden planted with lemon and orange trees and heavily populated by songbirds, are the caves that were used as prisons by the region's despotical rulers.
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While other animals like nocturnal songbirds and sea turtles are known to migrate by Earth's magnetic fields, the researchers say this is the first reliable evidence that insects can, too.
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In the flood-prone Houston area, federal permits will not be required to develop coastal and prairie wetlands that absorb excess rainwater and provide habitat for migrating songbirds and waterfowl.
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Some songbirds heading north on their annual migrations, governed by changes in light, will arrive too late for the feast of insects whose emergence is set off by warmer temperatures.
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"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" takes place 64 years before the events of the original novel on the day tributes were chosen for the Tenth Hunger Games, according to Scholastic.
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Perhaps this is why birdsong sounds so sweet to the human ear; perhaps this is the reason songbirds have played such a frequent muse to poets writing verse throughout the centuries.
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On the way he signs a Spice Girls-like group, the Songbirds, only to have his thunder stolen by the Lazies, an alternative band of greater integrity, whose rise he has ignored.
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Sadly, the bill eliminates oil and gas companies' responsibility for covering oil waste pools, which trap and drown birds, or for insulating power lines that electrocute owls, hawks, waterfowl, songbirds, and others.
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The thought of future springs without the call of songbirds — dead from eating poisoned insects — compounded by well-characterized impacts to our children's health should be more than sufficient to ban chlorpyrifos.
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To stymy this, many birders like tube feeders, which appeal to small songbirds such as finches, chickadees, siskins, titmice, grosbeaks, and sparrows, while discouraging larger birds such as jays, grackles, and doves.
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During winter we still have songbirds in Middle Tennessee, some of them yearlong residents and some of them visitors passing time until they can return to their nesting grounds to the north.
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But even before I left Alabama, winter was my least favorite season, a time when songbirds mostly cease their singing and small, furtive creatures find a secret place to sleep all day.
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The study focused on 52 species - mostly songbirds dominated by various sparrows, warblers and thrushes - that breed in cold regions of North America and spend their winters in locations south of Chicago.
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Hemmed in by Egyptian border posts to the south and Israeli watchtowers to the east, he makes a living by trying to trap and sell songbirds, using other caught birds as lures.
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And the fact that he would so effortlessly say that to me as steel drums played and the sun set in the pink sky made my heart explode into a million songbirds.
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But beautifully rendered flowers were often printed on medical advertisements in the late 19th century, along with songbirds and other charming scenes of nature, to sell everything from corn salves to laxatives.
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THE lovey-dovey monogamy which the untutored eye may perceive in pairs of songbirds, raising their young together in nests constructed by joint endeavour, has long been exposed by zoologists as a fantasy.
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The Alberta Energy Regulator said the animals, waterfowl and songbirds, were found at the Fort Hills oil sands mine jointly owned by Suncor, France's Total SA and Canadian mining company Teck Resources Ltd.
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A year after the Elwha Dam came down, Mr. Duda and his colleagues found chemical signs of marine-derived nutrients in the blood of American dippers, small aquatic songbirds that forage in rivers.
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In conjunction with the "Audubon's Perfect Pitch: Songbirds" installation at the New-York Historical Society, the Fund will visit the Society's DiMenna Children's History Museum with a program for visitors 5 and older.
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With the help of binoculars, radar and the naked eye, the professional scientists and the volunteers count the trapped birds, which often include small songbirds like Canada and yellow warblers and American redstarts.
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That's why I like birdwatching: you can do it anywhere, and by following the patterns of raptors or songbirds, you can get a sense of these perpetual global cycles that play out around us.
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The finding is consistent with what previous research has shown about the brains of songbirds, said John Marzluff, an expert in crow behavior and a professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington.
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By suspending a "simple, lightweight recorder" below a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter drone, Gettysburg College environmental studies professor Andrew Wilson and two undergraduate students studied songbirds and published their results in The Auk: Ornithological Advances.
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Six species on the island of Kauai are in danger of going extinct The 'I'iwi belongs to a family of brightly colored songbirds called the Hawaiian honeycreepers, which are unique to the remote Hawaiian archipelago.
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Defying common sense and nature, we urban birders try somehow to hasten the advent of the spring migration, which by May will fill the city's parks with dazzling songbirds in one of nature's greatest shows.
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Today, most of these songbirds are able to maintain their bright, white appearance, but at the turn of the 20th century, horned larks were a miserable dark grey, particularly in areas where coal was king.
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But as conservationists have repeatedly pointed out, the treaty neglects entire classes of animals, including 92 percent of the world's 10,700 reptile species, most amphibians, songbirds and fish, as well as invertebrates and small mammals.
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Springtime conditions have grown more variable and unpredictable in North America, making it harder for songbirds to time their migrations and secure the best nests and food supplies for their chicks, a separate report found this week.
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Scientists have known that zebra finches — one of the most oft-studied songbirds — learn their songs by listening to their dads, but a new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications takes that a step further.
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Authorities identified 25 different species involved in the incident, and The Audubon Society notes that the spring migration season for songbirds is currently underway, and that the area is a frequent stopping point for birds headed north.
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Those puzzles are cats, predators that cruelly toy with their prey (and decimate songbirds, by the way, which is why you need to dress every cat you encounter in a Elizabethan ruff, be it inside or outdoors).
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In the Six Villages, the Altari were moralistic scolds, while the Kartami were merely a distant threat that parents used to scare their children: Eat your greens, or the Kartami will steal your songbirds while you sleep.
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But the horrors of the post-apocalyptic setting can't be kept out by the white picket fence that guards this peaceful home, and soon the songbirds are replaced by ominous ravens, heralding something wicked in the wind.
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But vocal learning has rarely been proven to exist in animals other than humans or songbirds, said Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel Aviv University who led the study with graduate students Yosef Prat and Lindsay Azoulay.
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Earlier research has shown that connected neural circuits in the front part of the brain allow songbirds to learn songs they heard their parents sing months earlier, and might be useful for other complex activities, he said.
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Our migrant woodland songbirds require healthy northern forests for breeding, productive midcontinental forests for stop-over sites during spring and fall migration, and abundant tropical forests for these birds' long winter sojourns in Central and South America.
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He's the fourth man arrested in New York on similar charges since April 2018, in what officials said is indicative of the persistent illegal smuggling of the tiny songbirds that can sell for $3,000 in New York City.
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As I looked out over the ravine from the deck above, I could see small yellowish songbirds zipping between the trees, and humming insects flit by, illuminated by shafts of sunlight falling through the canopy of trees above.
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A staggering 96 percent of songbirds, even those that subsist on seeds and berries as adults, rely on insects to feed their young: A growing body needs protein, and for birds the best source of protein is a bug.
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From the smallest hummingbirds to bald eagles, and from migratory neotropical songbirds to oceangoing seabirds who rarely see more of North America than a sliver of Atlantic coast, the diversity and the spectacle of this mass movement is powerful.
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Grab your bows, Hunger Games fans, because we're going back to Panem — to learn more about how its deeply dystopian social system all began, with a new prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, centered on the series villain.
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But when studies began finding that new neurons grow all the time in animals such as mice and songbirds, starting in the 1980s, Boldrini was among the many scientists inspired to test out whether the same was true in humans.
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According to a release from the zoo, the Javan green magpie is one of most endangered songbirds in the world, and the Cornish charity zoo is one of only five collections in Europe where they can be viewed (and listened to).
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Most mornings, I woke to the sound of twin songbirds at my window, then gazed across the quiet, leafy street at a dilapidated villa, a remnant of the civil war that somehow seemed more like a Brutalist sculpture than a house.
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Contributing Opinion Writer NASHVILLE — During the nearly quarter-century that my family has lived in this house, the changes in our neighborhood have become increasingly apparent: fewer trees and wildflowers, fewer bees and butterflies and grasshoppers, fewer tree frogs and songbirds.
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But it carries a poetic significance: One of the senior scientists involved, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla of the University of California San Francisco, contributed to research that established neurogenesis does happen in other adult animals, such as rodents and songbirds, during the 1980s.
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New research published today in Science Advances shows that, for several species of songbirds, staying in the nest for extended periods allows baby birds to develop wings that are better suited for flight, which ultimately helps them to survive outside the nest.
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Other animals, however, including songbirds, also bear a version of the gene, and most of the researchers I met believe that language is probably, as Fisher put it, a "bio-cultural hybrid"—one whose genesis is more complicated than Chomsky would allow.
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It was a super-birding event in the bonanza that is spring migration — which runs from late April to early June, but peaks for songbirds in May — when millions of birds make their way from parts south to breed in the Northern latitudes.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes us back to when Snow is still a senior in college, and he's horrified when, out of all the gifted students who've been chosen to mentor the contestants, he's paired with a girl from District 12.
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New to the Chattanooga Choo Choo campus on Station Street and gaining national attention for its rare vintage guitar collection, Songbirds Guitar Museum is a staggering compilation that appeals to both guitar connoisseurs and those who wouldn't know a Fender from a fender.
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"Songbirds actually learn their songs by imitating the song of their fathers or other adult birds of the same species and then they go through an extended phase of vocal practice where they'll practice their song upwards of a hundred times during development," Roberts says.
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Male songbirds have many more neural connections in their brains to allow them to sing complex tunes, and he wonders how a half-and-half brain would affect this cardinal's ability to learn, evaluate and produce song, as well as its desire to do so.
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The goal is to get 20,000 scans, which is only a fraction of all the vertebrates out there, but they'll have been carefully selected to represent 80 percent of all genera — so you probably won't get multiple robins, for instance, but you will get multiple songbirds.
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"We found that birds, especially songbirds and parrots, have surprisingly large numbers of neurons in their pallium [or forebrain]: the part of the brain that corresponds to the cerebral cortex, which supports higher cognition functions such as planning for the future or finding patterns," said Herculano-Houzel.
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They come up with these pursuits and poncey affectations and delicacies that seem, from the outside, not just strange but actively perverse, the result of too much comfort and too little, uh, whatever it is that keeps non-aristocrats from boiling tiny songbirds alive in armagnac.
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Walking down the boardwalk, I could hear Justin Timberlake blasting from the Grindr house for a while, but then it eventually muffled out, and mostly what you heard was songbirds, with occasional bursts of Donna Summer and other divas ringing from different homes around the Pines.
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So far this year, customs officials say, nearly 200 of the tiny songbirds have made the arduous journey from South America, stuffed into plastic hair rollers or cardboard toilet paper rolls and hidden in the luggage of smugglers who bring them illegally into the United States.
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While continuing to pressure our elected leaders to do right by the planet before it convulses completely, we can also tend our own gardens with an eye toward giving birds a better chance: Maintain a brush pile so songbirds have a place to hide from predators.
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Walden's Puddle rehabilitates and releases orphaned and injured animals, and its Instagram account is normally a feel-good feed of squirrels, songbirds, turtles, deer, raccoons, opossums, snakes, rabbits, foxes, skunks, groundhogs, bobcats — pretty much everything that flies or crawls or walks or swims — and all of them on the mend.
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The pocket park provides the perfect habitat for a huge range of plant and animal life: In addition to the usual songbirds, mammals, turtles, and wildflowers that can make a home of even the tiniest wooded opportunity, Belle Forest boasts salamanders and tri-colored bats and at least 39 species of trees.
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The viewer is drawn in by the opening scenes populated by rolling dirt roads and songbirds and disarmed by the Edenic quality of the encounter between one man and one woman standing in a clearing in a green cornfield as she looks at him in wonder and momentary disbelief when he says.
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For the first two decades we lived in this house, our elderly backdoor neighbors kept a deep border of hardwood trees and woody shrubs on their side of the easement, a shelter for songbirds and a corridor for wildlife — deer and opossums and rat snakes and box turtles and red foxes and great horned owls, among many others.
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If the rainforest is more your vibe, or you want to scare your partner with monkey sounds (spoiler alert: according to me Australian fiancé, there are no monkeys native to the Gold Coast, Peter), you can also book a villa at Songbirds — that is if you're willing to maybe sleep in the same bed where Victoria F. and Peter did the dirty.
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