Science news articles about 'male birds'

... 's monumental size, the males' parenting behavior is rather unusual. The male bird hatches and raises the ... first six months. A large, flightless bird, the rhea is native to South America and is part ...

Male birds whose choice of singing posts puts them within reach of predators are also more likely to attract mates, say European scientists.

... study also provides the clearest evidence so far that singing to a female is rewarding for male birds. This may not be surprising, as such courtship is a necessary step in producing offspring, and so ...

... Society B, which appeared online this week. Male birds of numerous species have evolved elaborate ... Anna's own feather shafts and placed the bird in a wind tunnel to see how its metabolism was affected ...

The most attractive male birds attract more females and as a result are most successful in terms of reproduction. This is the starting point of many studies looking for factors that influence sexual ...

... exact sites the next spring to nest. Male birds were four times more likely to follow ... communication to a higher level, implying that what a bird hears may be more important than what they actually see ...

... Rica.Video footage of the tropical manakin bird has found that males employ a wingman to help them ... seems to hold no advantage for the lesser male in the pair.To investigate further, McDonald studied ...

... least two dozen hummingbirds, not to mention hundreds of other birds, sport long tails to attract females. ... tunnel flying, researchers show that long-tailed males expend little extra energy to attract ...

... her dissertation at CCNY, first generation male zebra finches raised in isolation produced an ... evolution in the song occurred whether the subsequent generations of male birds were raised among female ...

... songs played over two speakers. Only male birds were studied because female sparrows generally ... do this by directly interacting with a mature adult bird, but that is risky because he might be chased ...