Area of Focus: Birds

August 19, 2024

WSB: To save kestrels from airstrikes, translocate them

Moving the small raptors 15 miles away from airports was usually enough to ensure they don’t return to dangerous areas

August 15, 2024

Joseph Richards wins Donald H. Rusch Memorial Game Bird Scholarship

Richards is focusing his graduate research on invertebrate forage availability for Rio Grande wild turkeys in Texas

August 14, 2024

Committee set to discuss sandhill crane management in Wisconsin

A 12-member study committee on sandhill cranes will discuss population management

August 8, 2024

Avian detectives work to prevent aircraft bird strikes

The Smithsonian Institution’s Feather ID Lab identifies bird species involved in aircraft collisions

July 24, 2024

Mexican spotted owls benefit from low-severity fires

Massive wildfires are harmful to the birds, but low-severity fires benefit their habitats

July 18, 2024

Climate poses greatest threat to North American birds

Specialist birds are at an elevated risk

July 16, 2024

USFWS plans to cull 450,000 barred owls to help native species

Project aims to stymie loss of California and northern spotted owls

July 1, 2024

Snowmobiles affect bird songs

Researchers compared the way that snow machine noise silences bird songs in Yellowstone National Park

June 27, 2024

A new list documents ‘lost’ birds

Researchers tallied 126 species not seen in a decade

June 24, 2024

To save Hawaiian honeycreepers, conservationists make allies with mosquitoes

Biologists are using modified mosquitoes to reduce deadly avian malaria