10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2015
In this study, the males who slept in weren’t slackers—the researchers manipulated their circadian rhythms with melatonin implants. But just a 10-minute tap on the snooze button and they not only missed out on all that hot mating action, they were often cuckolded and left raising the offspring of the early risers.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
As a backup plan, researchers captured some Spoonies in Siberia in 2011 and brought them to England , where they’ve been raised at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2013
And they’re making the news, too. Speaking of birds in nests, five Chilean Flamingo chicks who were raised by a human “surrogate dad” at a British wildlife center have now graduated to joining the adults in the center’s colony. Think about it, have you ever seen a pink bird and not wanted to see it again?
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
But there is, apparently, and thanks to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, some good news on the rat front in that part of the world.). candidates and other seabird field researchers; and crusty boatsmen, some clued-in and some clueless, who guide him in various latitudes.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect. And it’s not just for the free rations of birdseed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
6), which raises awareness of the perils threatening shorebirds and the need to protect them and their habitats. Though researchers who mind eBird data will no doubt benefit from these data.) It’s part of World Shorebirds Day (celebrated annually Sep. Interestingly, citizen science isn’t its primary goal.
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