Tag: chicks

March 16, 2020

JWM: Energy development impacts sage-grouse reproduction

Energy development throughout Wyoming — including wind turbines and natural gas and oil extraction — decreases greater sage-grouse reproduction by removing the sagebrush landscapes they rely on, according to a...

October 30, 2018

Oversized house mice shrink albatross populations

On the British overseas territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic, albatross numbers are plummeting, and researchers say the reason is introduced house mice. The researchers discovered that the...

August 10, 2018

Alabama beachgoers may have killed hundreds of least terns

Hundreds of least tern chicks may have been killed at a shoal on Alabama’s Mobile Bay earlier this summer after beachgoers arrived at a breeding ground, scaring adults from their...

August 23, 2016

Plover chicks survive harrowing adventures to fledge on new beaches

From New Jersey to Manitoba, young piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) are learning to fly on beaches that haven’t seen plover nests in years. The birds’ expansion to new beaches is...

May 23, 2016

Whooping cranes hatch in Louisiana for first time since 1930s

A few years ago, biologists in Louisiana — covered from head to toe in white whooping crane costumes — released juvenile whoopers into the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in...

Wild shag seabirds
July 17, 2015

Disease in Individuals Affects Families

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