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A recently published scientific study has found that common wildfire reduction strategies in the Southwest – like tree thinning and prescribed burning – are detrimental for some declining bird ...

North American bird populations are shrinking and, in many places, the rate of their decline is accelerating, likely due to warming temperatures and intensive agriculture, a new study in the journal ...

In Idaho and the Mountain West, utility poles and power lines are often the tallest feature across the landscape, providing birds with a vantage point and the perfect place to perch, hunt or nest. The ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...

The total solar eclipse in North America on April 8, 2024, temporarily reset the biological clocks of some bird species, according to new research.The eclipse created a dramatic spectacle as the moon ...

Keith Grasman, a biologist who specializes in ecotoxicology, spent the summer performing medical tests on colonies of herring gulls, black-crowned night herons and Caspian terns at sites in Muskegon ...

Researchers collected the bodies of birds that crashed into buildings while migrating, and used these specimens to learn about the relationship between birds and the microbes living in their guts -- ...