1. A survey by US federal scientists has recorded total failure to reproduce among colonies of murres -- diving birds found widely in the northern Pacific. 2. Alternatively, the birds may have found a more appealing park or gutter en route. 3. Birds have found their way into the bare interior, and a finch has constructed a nest in one of the built-in shelves. 4. But he said the dead bird found in the Bronx provided fresh evidence that mosquitoes carrying the virus pose a threat across the city. 5. Except for one recent incident, in which the birds found and ate a dead sheep, the condors are feeding on carcasses left for them by their trainers. 6. How migrating birds find their way is a perennial source of fascination, mysteries further explored in the latest issue of the science magazine Nature. 7. Once shade-grown coffee plantations are converted to sun-grown, he says, birds must find new homes or perish. 8. The birds also find safety in numbers, putting up a ferocious joint defense against predators they cannot thwart on their own. 9. The bird must also find a way to avoid pushing itself out of the air when it brings its wings up for another downstroke. 10. The bird found a grassy knoll in the park and decided that it would be a good place to dine. |