Tag: Birds

For over 20 years, the movements of the critically endangered swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) have largely remained a mystery given the small size and highly variable annual movements of these...

Using weather radar to study North American bird migrations, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology made a surprising discovery: birds leaving the United States on long, hazardous journeys to...

Airports don’t just use radar to keep a watch out for airplanes coming and going. Some also use it to look out for birds, which pose a collision hazard for...

Weather radar is usually collected by the National Weather Service to help people know what to wear outside or if any big storms are coming, but it can also help...

An array of exotic reptiles introduced to the wilds of Florida is posing a growing threat to the state’s bird life, according to a recent article on Audubon.org. It’s not...

Conserving wildlife doesn’t work very well without taking humans into account. The North American Bird Conservation Initiative has launched a new program to highlight the advantages of bringing the social...

In the past, researchers have found an array of pharmaceuticals, evident in the bodies of animals near sewage treatment plants. Researchers recently found the antidepressant Prozac may affect starlings (Sturnus...

Insectivorous birds, which make up more than 6,000 species around the world, use as much energy as a megacity the size of New York, according to new research. In a...

Like Goldilocks, birds prefer it just right when it comes to severity and time after wildfires, researchers found. Some like it hot. Some not so much. To accommodate a diversity...

Click here to register for TWS’ 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, or visit twsconference.org for details, regular updates and other important conference information. For many people, thoughts of Cleveland...