Here's a grainy clip of a Laysan Rail from 1923. The birds went extinct after rabbits were introduced to Laysan (in Hawaii).
One writer called the chicks "a black velvet marble rolling along the ground [whose] feet and legs are so small and fast that they can hardly be seen."
Unexpected diversity of alternative reproductive tactics revealed in Water Rails (Rallus aquaticus)
Alexandru Nicolae Stermin, Martin Haase, Sven Künzel, Lars Sund, Saleta Morales, Angela Schmitz Ornés
https://t.co/P1sWPkDnHB
- Urbanization promotes the accumulation of trace metals in avian feathers
- Concentrations of Cu, Ni, and Zn higher in feathers of coots from urban landscape
- Urban trace metal pollution negatively associated with wing condition and morphology
https://t.co/aSwnaXy5cX
Interested in a PhD on the mechanism of displaying highly coordinated duets in birds? Recruitment extended until September 5. More information below:
https://t.co/wI3WwYDuUm
#PhD#Birds#Bioacoustics#Rallidae
Exciting PhD opportunity in Poland! Join this project on rhythm synchronization in bird duets and collaborate with top researchers from Adam Mickiewicz University, Australian National University, and University of Warsaw.
https://t.co/qTbrTYA1gb 🐦✨ #PhD#Birds#Bioacoustics
It was a great pleasure to visit David Logue and #BirdSongLab in snowy Canada.🦅Hope that soon you will see our joint publications about duetting #Rallidae species.
136.000 yıl önce soyu tükenmiş olan bu kuş, "yinelemeli evrim" adı verilen bir süreçten geçerek geri geldi.
İşte Cuvier rayının merak uyandıran hikayesi.
Beyaz boğazlı ray veya Cuvier'in rayı, Rallidae ailesindeki bir kuş türüdür.
Now in print!! Hope this helps stimulate more work on global patterns of song pitch in birds and how it might be affected by climate change. For those interested, https://t.co/eVyX3XHivE fieldwork is ongoing! Updates soon! https://t.co/sqOt1BD9UP
The 8th Marcin Antczak Award for the most inspiring ornithological paper published in 2021 goes to Jan Jedlikowski from @UniWarszawski. The award will be presented on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at the Faculty of Biology @UAM_Poznan. More details below👇
NEW BLOG: Baillon’s Crakes - two males and probably a female - were found singing at a site in East Yorkshire in 2022. Read more about the record, and why it wasn’t possible to release this news, at https://t.co/eWT7ObwLB9
.@Birdlife_SA received the 2022 AEWA Conservation Award at #AEWAMOP8
Their findings have reshaped our understanding of, and ability to conserve, the White-winged Flufftail, Africa’s most elusive waterbird
Learn more: https://t.co/xCTpvPO0EZ
Wszystkie czasopisma naukowe borykają się z dużą liczbą nadsyłanych artykułów, a z drugiej strony – z niedoborem ekspertów gotowych do podjęcia się wykonania rzetelnej i czasochłonnej recenzji naukowej. Efekt?
#recenzje#publikacje#nauka#predatory
https://t.co/NTnnKOTnRi
Machine learning methods predict more than half of data deficient IUCN Red List species are threatened by extinction #biodiversity
https://t.co/GaxQYdxr3Z
In @online_BOC @MatthewHalley demonstrates the oldest available name for the African Crake (Amaurornis flavirostra) is Rallus niger J. F. Gmelin, 1788; a petition to suppress the senior synonym in the interests of stability will be made to @ZooNom#ornithology#Rallidae