Tag: migratory birds

The House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife held a hearing June 13 to consider several new pieces of legislation, including a discussion draft of a bill...

Brad Keitt woke up early enough to make it to the dock by 5 a.m., to get everything loaded onto the research vessel by first light. The sport fishing boats...

Environment and Climate Change Canada recently released proposed changes to its migratory bird regulations. While Canada’s migratory bird  regulations, which were first adopted in 1917, have been amended several times...

Migratory birds making their traditional refueling stopover in Delaware Bay found scarce food quantities on their annual trip to their summer breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. Annual surveys conducted...

Citizen scientists involved in the eBird program are helping researchers identify the most important regions to focus conservation efforts across the Americas. “We need action, but we need to understand...

The effects of bright cities on migratory birds isn’t something to take lightly, but the biggest cities may not have the biggest impact on long-term journeys.  Instead, cities that lie...

Modern tracking devices can be tiny, but they can still have effects on some of the birds fitted with them, researchers found, although those impacts are sometimes overlooked. This blind...

Half-ounce songbirds, blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) redefine the meaning of endurance in their epic trip from the northwestern edge of Alaska to the East Coast before continuing on to Venezuela,...

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 gathered by 21...

Changing wind patterns due to climate change could bring mixed results for migrating birds. Under future climate scenarios, researchers found, North American birds may find it harder to migrate southward...