It’s been known for some time that wind farms kill birds. Various ways to protect birds from wind farms have been devised one of which is to paint one aerofoil black (see below) which you can read about by clicking on this link. But the …
The Times reports on the hunter gatherers of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania who, since the Stone Age, have been talking to the greater honeyguide bird in a customised language which gives the bird the confidence to guide members of this ancient tribe to wild …
NEWS/COMMENT: On long migrations, in America, a study has found that birds are drawn to the lights of skyscrapers in big cities where their lives are ended in collisions with the buildings – The Times reports. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications. …
“Bad space weather” refers to the sun spitting out vast globules of charged plasma towards planet Earth which has the power sometimes to knock out communication satellites and also the power to mess up the Baltimore Oriole’s navigation system when they migrate. I understand this …
This is a great story all about the best in humankind. The northern bald ibis was hunted to extinction in Europe in the Middle Ages. The bird habitually migrates south from northern Europe, as I understand it. A project concerning the conservation of this bird …
The most common reason by far is to protect their offspring in a nest nearby about which the dog or anyone else is blissfully unaware. The attacks bemuse the dog or cat. The picture below is a screenshot from a video which I can’t upload …
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s human population love birds. But it seems that some administrators of buildings, in order to keep the building free of bird poop, decide to stick spiky devices on their building and sometimes even the branches of trees near the building. …
A study published in the journal Nature Communications authored by Javier Sierro discovered that the successful male blue tit chasing a female sex was persistent in repeating their call and also able to switch to a different tune and then repeat it consistently, too. There …
This is the message that you can’t as a decent meat-eating person ignore: go vegan. And I say that as a meat-eater. But over a period of about 8 years, I have gradually weaned myself of meat. I still eat a small amount of chicken …
