Area of Focus: Birds

April 30, 2025

Using bird data to help bees

Bird observation can help researchers learn about wild bees that use similar habitat features

April 28, 2025

Citizen science is ecologically accurate

Platforms like eBird and iNaturalist showed low evidence of observation bias

April 24, 2025

Climate, habitat shift goldfinch range northward

Lesser goldfinches are showing up more in Washington, Idaho and Oregon

April 14, 2025

DOGE may threaten sustainability of FWS waterfowl limits

Annual waterfowl survey typically informs hunting quotas

April 10, 2025

Wild birds like pelicans, falcons help spread avian flu

Culling domesticated birds hasn’t stopped the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza

April 8, 2025

Saw-whet owls make stopovers to refuel on migration

One of North America’s smallest owls is difficult to track

April 4, 2025

American kestrel fledglings have high survival rate

But the small falcon continues to face declines in North America

April 2, 2025

Bonelli’s eagles recover in Catalonia

Despite problems in other regions, some parts of Spain are seeing a rebound in eagle numbers

April 1, 2025

Study recommends IUCN uplist emperor penguin

A new research method accounting for uncertainty leads scientists to suggest the IUCN change the species’ status to endangered

March 27, 2025

JWM: Invasive foxes disturb imperiled Aussie shorebirds

Nighttime intruders may affect curlews and other species at their high tide roosts