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Turn kids into ‘birdbrains’ as fliers come back from winter homes National Geographic © Photograph by Mirceax / Dreamstime OG Cardinals - Bird Watching Most kids are probably still feeling plenty of winter, but it’s a different story for migrating birds. As winter starts to transition to spring across the United States, warmer temperatures bring the return of many migratory species. And stealthy kids who keep their eyes on feeders, open water, coastlines, city parks, an...

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Male Lyrebirds Create ‘Acoustic Illusion’ To Snare Mates Cornell Lab of Ornithology News: ITHACA, NY — Famous for their uncanny ability to imitate other birds and even mechanical devices, researchers find that Australia’s Superb Lyrebird also uses that skill in a totally unexpected way. Lyrebirds imitate the panicked alarm calls of a mixed-species flock of birds while males are courting and even while mating with a female. These findings are published in the journal Current Biology. �...

A male superb lyrebird. (Credit: Alex Maisey) (CN) — Researchers have found an unusual behavior in the male superb lyrebirds of southeastern Australia: during courtship and mating, males will imitate the cacophonic sound of a panicked “mobbing flock” of birds, a call they typically deploy when a predator is afoot. “Our paper shows that male superb lyrebirds regularly create a remarkable acoustic illusion of a flock of mobbing birds and, in so doing, create a complex but potent cue of a ...

Credit: Alex Maisey, University of Wollongong Ithaca, NY--Famous for their uncanny ability to imitate other birds and even mechanical devices, researchers find that Australias Superb Lyrebird also uses that skill in a totally unexpected way. Lyrebirds imitate the panicked alarm calls of a mixed-species flock of birds while males are courting and even while mating with a female. These findings are published in the journal Current Biology. "The male Superb Lyrebird creates a remarkable acoustic ...

UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:06 am ET Replies(20) It’s not rare to see a pair of Northern cardinals. But what Waterford, Pennsylvania, birder Jamie Hill saw certainly was rare: a bird known as a bilateral gynandromorph, that is one divided right down the middle, half male and half female. (Shutterstock/Bonnie Taylor Barry) GRAND VALLEY, PA — When she saw the beautiful but peculiar-looking bird at her backyard feeder in Grand Valley, Annette Smith thought it was a genetic hybrid. That som...

Loading video... VIDEO: This video shows a male superb lyrebird mimicking a mobbing flock after an inspecting female leaves the males display mound without copulating view more  Credit: Dalziell et al. When birds see a predator in their midst, one defensive strategy is to call out loudly, attracting other birds of the same or different species to do the same. Sometimes individuals within this "mobbing flock" will fly over or at the predator or attack it directly. Now, researchers reporti...

It’s official: We’ve just seen the largest movement of evening grosbeaks into Pennsylvania in 20 years Updated Feb 25, 2021; Facebook Share Winter 2020-21 brought the “largest irruption of evening grosbeaks in over 20 years, a massive movement out of the boreal forest,” according to David Yeany II, avian ecologist with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. That declaration during a recent WPC webinar on its developing study of evening grosbeaks will come as confirmation to backyard bir...

How Pokémon GO Turned Me Into a Birder Share Filed to:bookpokemon Screenshot: Pokémon GO/Andrew Liptak To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, hacks and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Lifehacker Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a fix. Niantic celebrated the 25th anniversary of Pokémon last week, using the occasion to roll out an extensive event on its popular mobile game, Pokém...

Male lyrebirds snare mates with ‘acoustic illusion’ February 25, 2021 Already famous for its uncanny ability to imitate other birds and mechanical devices, Australia’s superb lyrebird can also imitate the panicked alarm calls of a mixed-species flock of birds while males are courting or even mating, a team including a Cornell researcher has found. “The male superb lyrebird creates a remarkable acoustic illusion,” said Anastasia Dalziell, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology associate and re...