TheCrimson Sunbirds(Aethopyga siparaja) –orYellow-backed Sunbird– is a tinysunbirdthat occurs naturally in tropical south-eastern Asia from west-central India to Indonesia and thePhilippines. They are typically found in forests and plantations. This is the national bird of the Republic of Singap...
This family only has one genus, which contains the ostriches. Ostriches are the largest living bird species. Ostriches are native to Africa. There are only two extant species of ostriches. The common ostrich, which is found across Africa and inhabits the open savannah and drier desert and semi...
Local Bird Life: Have students select a bird native to their area, and investigate all its environmental needs. What threats are there to those needs? What is needed to keep that bird species healthy? Extinction: Examine the historical and contemporary causes of extinctions, and what the effects...
Rhinoceros horn bill have upward curve casque on their bill, just like rhino horn, native to rain forest of Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. This casque is largest one among horn family, which also brings this common name for them. Male’s casque are little bigger than that of female bir...
Have you ever wondered why birds sing? Maybe you thought that they were just happy. After all, you probably sing or whistle when you are happy. Some scientists believe that birds do sing some of the time just because they are happy. However, they sing
indicators that emphasize short-term economic consumption or material wealth should be replaced or at least balanced against measures of human and economic health—perhaps a city should monitor and aspire to a condition where all residents live in neighborhoods where the songs of native birds can be...
(8) In late 2014, two native Japanese speakers (M. Kamioki, M. Mashiko in litt. 2014) used Google Japan to search Japanese websites for cases using relevant keywords (see above). I kindly request that fur- ther cases be reported to my email. For easy comparison, I mirrored Brooks' ...
(Chamberlain et al.2009). Other studies, however, have reported that birds nesting in non-native vegetation have at least equal levels of breeding success to conspecifics in native vegetation (e.g., Schlossberg and King2010; Meyer et al.2015). Such equivocal findings reflect the conclusions of...
Migratory wild birds acquire antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria from contaminated habitats and then act as reservoirs and potential spreaders of resistant elements through migration. However, the role of migratory wild birds as antimicrobial dissemin