Sentences with phrase «study migratory songbirds»
«Holzschuh and Deutschlander study migratory songbirds with a discerning eye toward understanding how energetic condition during passage might carry - over to impact breeding biology.
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A new study shows that when feather replacement and parental care overlap in time, migratory songbirds make a striking trade - off; they desert their offspring, leaving their mates to provide all remaining parental care.
This radical solution to conflict between parental care and the annual molt provides «a nice illustration of the complex lives that migratory songbirds lead,» says Ron Mumme, the study's author and Professor of Biology at Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania.
According to a new study by biologists at Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, the offspring of a certain songbird, the wood thrush, are more likely to survive drought in larger forest plots that offer plenty of shade and resources.
Furthermore, movement - independent ZENK expression in the forebrain of night - migratory birds performing magnetic orientation at night is confined to Cluster N [with the strongest activation in distinct subregions (the shell surrounding the DNH nucleus)-RSB-, as shown by the detailed quantification of ZENK expression within Cluster N performed in this study], and this expression massively decreased in corresponding brain areas of non-migratory songbirds and in all bird species during daytime [13].
A recent study by David Mizrahi of New Jersey Audubon and Jeff Buler of the University of Delaware, revealed that the Great Cypress Swamp is one of the two most important stopover sites in Delaware for neotropical migratory songbirds during the spring and fall migrations.
She first visited the Alaskan Arctic in 2001, and will return to the North Slope this spring and summer to continue a wildfire - mapping project and to set up a field study that will look at how warming - induced changes are affecting migratory songbirds that breed on the tundra each summer.