Desert-friendly yards help local birds in arid cities
The pressures of big city living may take a toll on native desert bird species, but keeping a more drought-tolerant yard may help them keep a toehold in cities like ...
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Bird lover’s board game soars in popularity
What do spreadsheets, birds, and board games have in common? They came together in Wingspan, a board game based on serious science that has become a phenomenon ...
Balloons play an outsize role in seabird deaths
Parents may want to think twice before allowing their children to let balloons fly off into the atmosphere. When seemingly harmless latex balloons end up in the ...
Climate change has birds migrating earlier
Climate change has pushed migratory birds to take their spring trips a week earlier than they did six decades ago. According to a large-scale analysis of data ...
WSB: Do purple martins face a housing crisis?
The purple martin (Progne subis) is in the midst of a long-term decline, and researchers worry that without humans continuing to put out birdhouses for them, their ...
For chickadees, memory is a product of natural selection
On the mountaintops of the Sierra Nevadas, mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) create food caches to survive the winter, and they rely on their memories to find ...
Could some birds benefit from climate change?
When researchers looked at the effects of recent extreme drought in the Sierra Nevada, they expected to find the large-scale death of trees would cause bird numbers ...
25 years after Northwest Forest Plan, birds still declining
In the 25 years since the Northwest Forest Plan was initiated, bird species still are not recovering, researchers found, despite sweeping protections the plan ...
Social marketing campaigns can help conservation efforts
Social marketing campaigns that aim to change human behavior have proven to be instrumental in promoting wildlife conservation, according to new research. ...
Unseen for 300 years, endangered seabirds heard on Oahu
It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian ...