Prime bird areas in the Great Lakes lack protection
Many prime areas for birds in the Great Lakes region of the United States lack protection, according to new research. The northern shore of Lake Michigan is ...
Marsh birds
Automated recorders detect secretive marsh birds
Standing over a foot tall and covered in brown mottled feathers, the king rail is hard to track down amid the marshy reeds where it spends most of its time. The ...
WSB: Noose carpets lasso rare rails
Researchers are successfully hooking marsh birds with a novel noose carpet technique that uses steel mesh and fishing line to lasso the birds to learn more about ...
Military bases can help protect marsh birds
A handful of military bases around the United States could play an outsized role in marsh bird conservation. “Our models provide some tangible predictions for ...