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American robins have returned to northern Alaska. A male is now perched above me in a balsam poplar tree on this bench of ...
We walked through the main part of the garden but baulked at continuing the walk around the lake, due to the increasingly ...
The Canucks and Eagles best-of-five series starts Friday (May 16) inside the Abbotsford Centre at 7 p.m. Game two is set for ...
In total, more than 4.1 million birds were recorded during the annual week-long event held last October, which involved 57,000 participants across the country. Rainbow Lorikeet has taken the top spot ...
Sometimes referred to as one of Australia’s “most hated birds” the noisy miner has topped the list of the most common bird in Brisbane in the latest BirdLife Australia count. Battle of the ...
This colourful parrot was the most-counted bird in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. In second place came the noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala). This ...
The rainbow lorikeet has been unveiled as the nation’s most spotted bird after a count involving nearly 60,000 Australians. The noisy miner flew into second place and the infamous – and ...
This new study took a closer look at the impact of vehicle noise pollution on the Galápagos yellow warblers. To stimulate the sound of an intruder, the team played bird songs from a speaker and ...
Birds are known to flock to water resources ... benefit species adapted to life in cities such as the aggressive noisy miner. Golf courses can also harbor pests such as cane toads, rats and ...
Key threats include: bushfires destroying critical habitat and population numbers reduction of genetic diversity predator species such as noisy miner birds, possums, currawongs, ravens land clearing, ...
Both probably contributed. But I like to blame my least favourite birds, the introduced common myna and the native noisy miner. The two species have similar names and are similarly sized ...