nectarivores Archives - The Wildlife Society

Birds adapt to novel ecosystems across the world

June 12, 2018

Conservationists have long called for restoring landscapes as much as possible to the way they were before humans altered them, but they’ve started embracing the idea that nonnative plants can sometimes help sustain native wildlife. …

Climate change threats to Hawaiian tree impact birds, too

December 6, 2017

On the Big Island of Hawaii, hundreds of thousands of ‘ohi’a trees, whose scarlet blooms color the archipelago and sustain many endemic nectar-feeding birds, are swiftly succumbing to a fungal disease. Now biologists have discovered …