Posts Tagged 'avian'
5 Amazing Facts About The Elephant Bird [video]
Published May 8, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: avian, Elephant Bird, extinct, Madagascar, video, wildlife
How Birds Really See the World [video]
Published April 29, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: avian, biology, bird, eyesight, ultraviolet vision, video, wildlife, zoology
Oldest Known Bird Hatches A Chick
Published February 12, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: avian, bird, Laysan albatross, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, oldest mom, oldest mother, reproduction, wisdom
The world’s oldest known wild bird just became a mother again. The 63-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom was spotted taking care of her newborn earlier this month on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Biologists banded Wisdom in 1956 as she incubated an egg and have been following her ever since. The tough old bird has hatched a new chick for the past seven years in a row and has likely raised more than 30 chicks in her lifetime. She also survived a 2011 tsunami, which claimed 2,000 of her fellow adult albatrosses and about 110,000 chicks in the Midway wildlife refuge, an island habitat in the middle of the North Pacific.
Parrots Name Their Babies
Published July 24, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: avian, baby name, bird, cockateel, communicator, mimic speech, minah, parrot, wtf, zoology
According to Geekosystem.com –
Parrots, with their amazing abilities to mimic speech and talk to humans in addition to each other, are by far impressive communicators. But research shows that parrot conversations are even more complex. Each parrot has its own signature call that others use to address it, which is the parrot equivalent of having a name. But where do these “names” come from? New research has shown that just like with human babies, parrot parents name their offspring, even before the babies can communicate themselves.