Tag: bacteria

To communicate with each other, birds use songs, calls and plumage. But they also use scent, thanks to oil glands above the tail — and maybe also, according to recent...

The waters of Maine’s Lake Auburn were renowned for being pristine. Surrounded by fields, forests and the grassy campus of Central Maine Community College, the 2,260-acre lake above the towns...

Flowers might be a hot spot for transmission of bacteria to bees, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to recent research. As part of a study published in...

All birds normally fly around with bacteria on their wings, but researchers wanted to know how those microorganisms affect their plumage. In the study published in the Auk: Ornithological Advances,...