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How to Identify a House Finch

Learn what a house finch looks like and how to attract one. Find out facts about the house finch nest, eggs, range, habitat ...
Lightning has streaked across Arizona skies over the past few weeks as the state's monsoon season kicks into full force. With that comes an increase in wildfire risk. The state has seen relatively few ...
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Scientists find that streaked shearwaters poop every four to ten minutes in flight—a strict schedule that doesn't apply when they're sitting on the water's surface. Yusuke Goto It turns out that ...
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This seabird poops on the fly. Streaked shearwaters, oceanic birds that spend much of their time out on the open Pacific Ocean, defecate almost exclusively in the air, researchers report August 18 in ...
Streaked shearwaters keep a very regular rhythm throughout their daily foraging flights, shedding about 5 percent of their body mass every hour. By Elizabeth Preston Scientists who attach video ...
On Japan's desert islands, researchers uncovered a peculiar bathroom ritual among seabirds. Reporting in Current Biology, the team found that streaked shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) poop while ...
When a scientist started fixing backward-facing cameras to the bellies of seabirds called Streaked Shearwaters in a breeding colony in Japan, he had pure intentions: he wanted to observe the birds’ ...
On Japan’s desert islands, researchers uncovered a peculiar bathroom ritual among seabirds. Reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 18, the team found that streaked shearwaters ...
Researchers found that streaked shearwaters have strict bathroom schedules, pooping every four to 10 minutes and almost always while flying, not while floating. Credit: Yusuke Goto As a seabird ...