Songbirds fuel merlin migration
Blood on predatory merlins’ beaks and talons is revealing the prey that propel merlins on their annual migrations. Merlins migrate between the boreal forests of ...
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Record heat takes its toll on raptor nestlings
Across the western U.S. and Canada, wildlife rehabilitation centers are reporting young birds of prey jumping out of their nests before they can fly to escape the ...
Amazon eagles lose habitat to deforestation
Intense deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest is pushing one of the world’s largest eagles to the brink of extinction in Brazil. The Amazon eagle (Harpia ...
Raptors have high prevalence of cat parasite
Raptors in the U.S. have a high prevalence of a parasite found widely in cats that can also cause disease in infected humans. According to new research, carnivorous ...
JWM: Nonmigratory eagles suffer ‘troubling’ lead exposure
Golden eagles that spend their winters in western Montana are overwhelmingly exposed to lead contamination. “Almost the entire population has been exposed to ...
Seven condors soon to be released in central California
Fresh off the setback of losing a number of birds to the Dolan Fire, conservationists are set to release seven new birds into the wild. The Dolan Fire destroyed a ...
TWS2020: Ospreys nest successfully on phone towers
Researchers reveal a strong signal that ospreys nesting on cellphone towers have similar productivity and success rates when raising young than their counterparts ...
Wild Cam: Gray hawks benefit from waterway conservation
Riparian conservation in otherwise arid environments could help a raptor that was rarely found north of the Mexican border in previous decades to expand into the ...
Bird wing study reveals different flight development paths
Different flight preferences and the size of the avian vessel are responsible for the vastly different shapes of bird wings. Spread wings from (top to bottom) a ...
New Jersey town combats gull problem with raptors
How does a seaside tourist town keep gulls from pestering its patrons? Ocean City, New Jersey, has been using raptors to tackle the problem. The city has been ...