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Thousands of Cranes Take Flight in One of Earth's Last Great Migrations - National Geographic
Articles on bird migration (not in any particular order - most recently read first)
Ancestors of chickens studied for conservation - Economic times (2008)
KOLKATA: The ancestors of domestic chickens and poultry are being conserved and studied by scientists in case the domestic birds are eradicated by outbreak of diseases like bird flu.
Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical - Nicola Davis, The Guardian (2016)
”The identification of a bone fragment from around 17 million years ago offers clues to both parrot evolution and a very different Siberian ecosystem”
Pesticides disrupt songbird migration - Wildlife Preservation Canada (2017)
”A team of Canadian scientists have linked harmful insecticides with migratory impairment in the white-crowned sparrow.”
How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe? - Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian (2016)
"Chickens are native to the tropical jungles of Southeast Asia, but over the last approximately 8,000 years, chickens have been domesticated and spread around the globe to become one of the most valued domesticated animals."
Songbirds' epic migrations connected to a small cluster of genes - Phys.org (2016)
“Scientists from the University of British Columbia have shown that there is a genetic basis to the migratory routes flown by songbirds, and have narrowed in on a relatively small cluster of genes that may govern the behaviour.”
Flight Insurance: What Is Being Done to Protect Migratory Birds? - Scientific American (2011)
“Chief among environmental threats to migratory birds is habitat destruction. Human development of wetlands areas leaves many birds without suitable habitat for stopovers and even wintering sites.”
Bird Migration Routes and Risk for Pathogen Dispersion into Western Mediterranean Wetlands - Elsa Jourdain, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Dominique Bicout, and Philippe Sabatier (2007)
"...data about avian movements might be used to improve disease surveillance schemes or to adapt preventive measures. However, solid bridges between ecology and human medicine are still lacking."