tags: white-tailed sea eagle, behavior, fetch, streaming videoThis streaming video shows a man playing fetch with Evie, his white-tailed sea eagle. This is a fun game if you enjoy having a 14-pound bird with an eight foot wing-span fetching a

tags: bpr3.org/?p=52, begging calls, brood parasitism, coevolution, learning, social shaping, ornithology, Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Chalcites basalis, Chrysococcyx basalisHorsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Chalcites (Chrysococcyx) basalis, Capertee Valley, NSW, Australia, September 2003.Image: Aviceda [larger view]. Brood parasites are birds, fish or insects that deceive unrelated

My companion parrot, Elektra, a female Solomon Islands Eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis.Image: GrrlScientist 3 April 2008 [larger view]. Sometime today (probably while I was cleaning up after my parrots), this blog received its two millionth visitor! Thank you everyone!

tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the DayAmerican Avocets, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 December 2006 [larger view]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 500.0mm iso400.

LONDON -- A newly discovered tape of The Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000, an auction house reported Tuesday.

LONDON -- It was Katie and Darren's wedding day and they were in the clouds - strapped to the top of biplanes reciting vows 1,000 feet above the earth. Katie Hodgson, 23, took to the skies Tuesday in a full

NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered John A. "Junior" Gotti held without bail after the man who insisted he had retired from a life of crime was arrested on charges linking him to three killings and large-scale

Daily Pivots: (S1) 166.95; (P) 167.61; (R1) 168.25; More . Price actions in EUR/JPY continue to be extremely volatile but after all, the choppy fall from 169.96 is treated as correction to rise from 169.96 and could extend further and

Current level-1.5509 EUR/USD is in an uptrend from recent bottom at 1.5301, that was the final of the prolonged consolidation since 1.5909 (17 March 2008). Technical indicators are slowly rising and trading is situated between the 50- and 200-Day SMA,

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.0292; (P) 1.0330; (R1) 1.0400; More . USD/CAD's rise continues as expected and reaches a high as 1.0451 so far. At this point, intraday bias remains on the upside as long as 1.0350 minor support holds. Break

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.0292; (P) 1.0330; (R1) 1.0400; More . USD/CAD's rise continues as expected and reaches a high as 1.0451 so far. At this point, intraday bias remains on the upside as long as 1.0350 minor support holds. Break

Daily Pivots: (S1) 107.72; (P) 108.01; (R1) 108.55; More . No change in USD/JPY's outlook remains unchanged as choppy sideway trading continues inside range of 107.27 and 108.37. As discussed before, considering the bearish divergence condition in 4 hours MACD,

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.9561; (P) 1.9661; (R1) 1.9723; More Cable dives further to as low as 1.9524 today and at this point, intraday bias remains on the downside as long as 1.9638 minor resietnace holds. Fall from 2.0158 is expected

FOMC Day It looks like today we have a stronger dollar against a lot of currencies, the most interesting for me is the Aud/Usd especially because of the RBA rate statement, which negatively impacted the Australian dollar, and pushed this

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.0441; (P) 1.0473; (R1) 1.0514; More USD/CHF's rise from 1.0010 resumes today by taking out 1.0520 resistance and at this point, intraday bias remains on the upside as long as 1.0431 minor support holds. Further rise should

USD/JPY Open 107.65 High 108.29 Low 107.50 Close 107.46 The US Dollar climbed insignificantly yesterday against the Japanese Yen from Monday's bottom 107.50 to today's top 108.29, which are the first support and resistance levels respectively for the currency couple

The Greenback Smashes the Aussie on Rates The continent down under is showing signs of an economic slowdown causing the central bank's attention to shift toward growth. In the last seven years the only way was up for the Australian

The break of trendline support on the daily chart has worked out well so far, but if you missed it there could be another entry coming up very soon. If we do see two votes for an increase at Tuesday's

Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.5543; (P) 1.5587; (R1) 1.5619; More EUR/USD's decline from 1.6038 resumes today after taking out 1.5517 and dives to as low as 1.5464 so far. At this point, intraday bias remains on the downside as long as

Despite significant headwinds facing the U.S. economy, the Institute for Supply Management's Non-Manufacturing Index (NMI) signaled only a modest contraction in service sector activity in July. The sub-components were essentially unchanged, however there was a notable rebound in the employment