Arctic Birds Use Scent to Find Their Mates
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Antarctic birds returning to a nesting colony after feeding at sea sniff out their mates, literally. Researchers studying the behavior of birds called Antarctic prions found the musky-smelling birds were able to discern the scent of their mates.
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When a male grizzly rubs a pine tree with his backside, it&#39;s not to satisfy an itch but to ward off competition while he looks for a female, according to unusual research to be unveiled next week.
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Researchers say elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing.
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Some of the flying mammals find their way home by sensing Earth's magnetic field, just like migrating birds, new research suggests.
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WARROAD, Minn. - It might have seemed like the birds were fighting back against a Duluth hunter on a recent trip to far northern Minnesota...
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Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are getting an education in the sex lives of a rare sea duck species that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska.
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Male humpback whales sing to woo females, who size up potential mates based on their singing ability, an Australian scientist says.
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Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, which implies that at least in that region, plants may be able to shift long distances.
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Gray-headed albatrosses, famed for flocking to the South Georgia Islands near Antarctica to mate and raise chicks, routinely circle the globe between breeding seasons in a restless search for fish, British scientists discovered.
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The remaining tagged walrus in a study trying to find out where the tusked beasts migrate to is still on the move.
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To shed light on the secretive sex lives of rosy-finches, birds that nest high in the Rocky Mountains, researchers clip on crampons and get climbing.
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Cambridge, England, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- British and Filipino researchers have found a new bird species on a remote island in the northern Philippines, which is a relative to the familiar Moorhen.
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The feathered creatures winging across North America have an obvious gift that land-bound humans lack, but their survival is threatened by earthly concerns.
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Chickadees, cardinals and titmice are common visitors to a snowy bird feeder. But hummingbirds? That's what Janet Allen saw last year in her yard in suburban Syracuse. For several days in dreary November, a young ruby-throated hummingbird shivered on a snow-laced feeder, sipping sugar water when it should have been flitting among tropical blossoms in sunny Mexico.
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Thanks to the islandâs variety of different habitats, Kodiak was again a rewarding place for people who participated in the annual Christmas Bird Count, Saturday.
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A bird species new to science has been found by researchers on a remote island in the northern Philippines.
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They rarely see each other, spend winters in different countries and don't communicate for long periods but pairs of a species of Icelandic migratory birds know exactly when to return home to breed.