Dutch Birding Association – the website is about the bimonthly journal Dutch Birding and all information about the WP and Dutch rarities and related subjects.
Deep Jungle Home – some creative ideas on converting unused or waste material into bird houses. By Setting up a birdhouse in your backyard or balcony you will be offering a safe nesting place for birds. With growing city boundaries and afforestation birds find it difficult to find a safe place to nest. By offering the same you will help the bird in survival. Make sure to plant native trees and plants as well.
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of bird remains found in the Chaco Canyon and Mimbres areas of New Mexico.
Fruit flies don't appear to use their tiny, translucent wings for optimal flight, as one might expect. The speedy appendages seem to be doing double duty, helping the insect sniff out food, mates and other important scents, according to new research.
Songbirds can acquire new abilities both through observation and through trial and error. However, skills acquired with the latter method are more easily adapted to new situations, as scientists have been able to demonstrate. The researchers also see parallels to how children learn.
