Area of Focus: Birds

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

Scientists haven’t confirmed shorebird sighting in three decades

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

Sometimes the big picture can leave out hidden habitat

Surveillance drones assist wildlife managers in protecting birds

Common murre populations were left without food following a heat wave

But environmental DNA can sometimes catch things that cameras missed

The bird went extinct in the wild in 2002

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

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