Tag: Birds

Community scientists are having a difficult time observing even the most common birds amidst the smoke from wildfires on the West Coast. A team of scientists combined data from eBird,...

A protein inside songbirds’ eyes makes them sensitive to magnetic fields, researchers have confirmed, which may play a role in how the animals navigate. Physicists have hypothesized since the 1970s...

When researchers study climate change, they often focus on scorching heat in hotter summers. Winter tends to get overlooked, even though extreme weather events can be impactful to wildlife. In...

A mysterious illness that blinds birds before eventually killing them has now turned up in Ohio after being initially discovered in the Washington, D.C. area. The Ohio Wildlife Center in...

Some bird species may not be able to cope with increasingly extreme winters — whether that means unusually warm periods or polar vortexes. Researchers examined the impacts of extreme cold...

Wildlife experts say a high numbers of birds in the Washington, D.C., area are turning up blind, often dead or dying, but they don’t know what’s causing it. The Washington...

Since piping plovers were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1985, researchers have been uncertain about some population dynamics and connectivity among the breeding groups that could help the...

What brings a million birds that breed in the Arctic to winter on the coast of northwest Mexico? “The truth is, researchers don’t actually know,” writes Julián García Walther, a...

The world has 50 billion birds, a team of Australian researchers has concluded, but most species are rare and in need of greater conservation efforts. In a study published in...

Rat Island, one of many islands in the Aleutian archipelago in Alaska, used to be aptly named. Invasive rats first arrived after escaping from a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s....