Area of Focus: Birds

February 14, 2025

JWM: Humans main factor in Spanish Bonelli’s eagle decline

Electrocution, poisoning, poaching and drowning in water tanks are all causes of eagle death

February 5, 2025

Slender-billed curlew declared extinct

Scientists haven’t confirmed shorebird sighting in three decades

January 27, 2025

JWM: Trail cameras can lure predators to nests

Researchers’ efforts to observe natural behavior may skew predator-prey dynamics

January 21, 2025

The finer side of predicting biodiversity patterns

Sometimes the big picture can leave out hidden habitat

January 8, 2025

Surveillance drones in Bangladesh help curtail poaching

Surveillance drones assist wildlife managers in protecting birds

December 23, 2024

Marine heat wave spurs common murre decline

Common murre populations were left without food following a heat wave

December 12, 2024

Trail cameras detect species better than soil eDNA  

But environmental DNA can sometimes catch things that cameras missed

December 6, 2024

Hawaiian crow released in Maui 

The bird went extinct in the wild in 2002

December 4, 2024

Rodenticides found in turkey vultures despite bans 

Researchers found anticoagulant rodenticides in 11% of the vultures they tested

December 2, 2024

Florida scrub-jays suffer effects of warming change 

Warmer winters are causing earlier nesting in the species—and fewer offspring