Rare bird turns out to be sociable after all
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- Rare bird turns out to be sociable after all
- de to a Faux Dodo
- Pigeon fanciers trapped.(too weird)(Brief article)
- Having a high time in the city
- Time to button up the house for winter
Rare bird turns out to be sociable after all
Times nline – Oct 19, 2007
Sociable lapwings were thought to be down to their last 400 breeding adultsfour years ago but a flock of at least 3200 has been found in Turkey. The flock was detected when ornithologists tagged a sociable lapwing with asatellite tracker in Kazakhstan and followed it to Turkey. It was thesmallest bird to have been fitted with the device. When researchers set out to check on the bird feeding in a remote area ofCeylanpinar they were astonished to come across thousands of them. html”–>Researchers from the Turkish conservation group Doga Dernegi counted 1800sociable lapwings last Friday and 3200 a day later. “This discovery is something we didn’t dare dream of.
de to a Faux Dodo
Harvard Crimson – Oct 19, 2007
Hedman ?10 said on a recent visit to the museum after being told the bird was a fake. Harvard?s dodo inherits an enigmatic legacy shrouded in centuries of bloody intrigue: from the bird?s extinction in the 1640s to an 18th-century bonfire that nearly burned the world?s last specimen to ashes. Not to mention a man who may have killed to inherit the stuffed bird the one which would eventually inspire Harvard?s fake. A WRLDLY BIRDThe beginnings of the faux dodo are older than the University itself. According to Lecturer on rganismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Berry Portuguese and Dutch traders colonized the species? home island of Mauritius in the Indian cean starting in 1598. The first extant report of a dodo was penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629. Five years later Herbert recounted ?Here only is generated the Dodo which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat few weigh lesse then fifty pound are reputed of more for wonder then for food greasie stomackes may seeke after them but to the delicate they are offensive and of no nourishment? according to Clara Pinto-Correia?s book ?Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad Strange Tale of the Dodo… And there it has stayed for the past hundred years an avian imposter. But the bird lives on?in the genetic material Harvard researchers recently extracted from the London dodo carcass. Their analysis? Genetically speaking ?It?s basically a big fat pigeon? said Berry who co-authored the book ?DNA: The Secret of Life? with genetics pioneer James D. ?If we were to stick it into a chicken genome it wouldn?t be a chicken with a dodo?s face or that sort of manipulation but it would be fascinating. ?Berry said it would probably be impossible to clone the bird. The charred dodo?s genetic material was simply too damaged and too old.
Pigeon fanciers trapped.(too weird)(Brief article)
Free with registration – Current Science a Weekly Reader… – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 19, 2007
– A 16-month federal sting operation has resulted in charges being filed in July against at least 13 pigeon owners in California New Mexico regon Texas and Washington. All the men charged raise roller pigeons as a hobby. Roller pigeons are the Cirque du Soleil.
Having a high time in the city
NEWS.com.au – Oct 19, 2007
It’s a perfect vantage point for the parents to spy the next takeaway meal. Soaring through city skies they feast on quail picked off at the Altona wetlands ducks swooped on at Albert Park lake and screeching cockatoos dived on in the Royal Botanic Gardens. But the meal most often on their menu are pigeons seized mid-flight. The sheer force of the bird’s striking talons stuns the doomed victim which is then whisked back home to a simple box filled with sand fixed to the window ledge. The city lost its last pair of falcons when one caught an illegally baited pigeon a final deadly meal the birds unwittingly shared with their chicks. The new chicks two males and a female are believed to be 17 days old.
Time to button up the house for winter
Globe and Mail – Oct 19, 2007
It’s a squirrel thing. But it’s not just squirrels that can clog a chimney. Birds — sparrows starlings pigeons chimney swifts — also may make nests there. com: Time to button up the house for winter… Electrical gutter cables which are designed to prevent ice dams come in a variety of lengths and prices. Eavestrough aficionados are divided on the practice of using mesh over the top to prevent the accumulation of leaves and debris. Anyone who has fished a dead bird out of a drain in the spring may find the protection appealing but Sunnyside’s Mr. Robert cautions that the mesh can give homeowners a false sense of security. “Sometimes people think because they have mesh on their eavestroughs they don’t need to get them cleaned. What happens is the leaves accumulate on top of the mesh and then everything is blocked and all the water runoff problems occur” he says. “I recommend using cone-shaped mesh blockers over the downspouts to catch things before they go down into the drains.
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