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Using weather radar to track Australia's migrating birds Date: October 28, 2024 Source: University of Queensland Summary: Scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to ...
Previously, the oldest evidence for birds in Gondwana was a wishbone and a feather found in south-east Australia, dating back to roughly 118 million years ago. Now, Anthony Martin at Emory ...
Australia's only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of prey from the Pleistocene period more than 50,000 years ago -- and now researchers are bringing ...
Habitat degradation and erratic rainfall conditions are impacting the movement of birds through northern Australia's fragmented landscape, a new study by Monash University has found. Analyzing 17 ...
A military campaign meant to rid Western Australia of crop-destroying emus ended in failure. But the surreal showdown highlighted the birds’ critical role in the country’s ecosystem and ...
A rare solar eclipse passed over Australia and southeast Asia, stunning skygazers and panicking birds along the way. The hybrid solar eclipse started in the Indian Ocean around sunrise, crossed ...
Australia’s Clever Birds Did Not Consent to This Science Experiment The magpies showed their smarts by helping one another remove tracking harnesses that scientists carefully placed on them.
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17 March 2021 Rare birds in Australia have forgotten how to sing their own song Without elder instructors of their own kind, young regent honeyeaters are adapting the songs of other species.
Australia’s threatened birds have declined by 59%, on average, between 1985 and 2016 based on 400,000 surveys at more than 17,000 locations according to Australia’s world-first Threatened Bird ...