Tag: Birds

Conservationists often focus on protecting individual species to help maintain biodiversity. But researchers found that protecting biodiversity may be a good way to prevent extinction. Brian Weeks, an assistant professor...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature downlisted red kites, a raptor species found widely across Europe, to least concern in 2020, after researchers found that the bird numbers were...

Typically, the more predators are on the landscape, the less prey are around. Bring in more wolves (Canis lupus), and you can expect elk (Cervus canadensis) numbers to fall. “It...

Joro spiders may look big and scary, but biologists say that unlike some other introduced species, they may not pose a danger to the environment, even if they spread across...

When researchers in Chicago studied museum specimens of birds that died from window strikes, they discovered a trend. Since the 1970s, a warming climate was causing many species of birds...

The Iron Curtain is more than just a bit of Cold War history. The imaginary line across Europe has left a legacy on the landscape in many ways. One is...

For many bird species, scientists don’t have much information to figure out whether their populations are rising, falling or staying about the same. To get a better sense, researchers turned...

In the coastal areas of Guyana, hunters get creative when trapping birds—sometimes “shocking” whole flocks with wires. Tying a 12-meter wire to a pole and laying it down in a...

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is a massive piece of architecture, even by New York City standards. The building takes up four city blocks of space right alongside the...

Maine is conducting its first-ever statewide survey of wintering birds. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is updating its Maine Bird Atlas, a citizen science project that tracks...