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With careful observation, you can start to recognize that one sassy squirrel or the cardinal pair who call your neighborhood home.
The Canadian Prairies are vanishing more quickly than the Amazon rainforest as they are converted for agriculture and industrial uses.
Even in the breeding grounds, we found that European bee-eaters preferred the company of some birds over others. These tended to be the individuals they migrated with.
A collection of millions of bird sightings has identified the best places to invest in conservation.
Artificial light, from low-level backyard lighting to lights in office buildings and skyscrapers, distract migratory birds with deadly effects.
Much of the money for wildlife conservation in the United States comes from taxes and fees paid by sportsmen. But as fewer Americans take up hunting, wildlife managers need other funding sources.
Fall is peak activity time for adult blacklegged ticks, increasing the risk of tick bites on both people and pets.
There are hundreds of variations on the basic 'flavour' of bird migration.
Migrating to Europe changed the immune systems of birds who no longer needed to worry about African diseases.
The Interior Department is narrowing protection for migratory birds to cover only deliberate harm such as hunting, but not threats like development or pollution that kill millions of birds yearly.
If Europe is going to reap the benefits of conservation measures at home, its experts need an understanding of where “their” birds migrate to when they head off to Africa.
New research reveals how birds navigate their way over thousands of miles.
The European goldfinch, with its wonderful coloration and melodic singing, is a favoured pet for people living in the western Maghreb. But continued poaching is putting the species in danger.
We aren’t just jostling with each other for beach space. Scuttling, waddling, hopping or flying away from beachgoers all around Australia, wildlife struggles to survive the daily disturbances.
Migratory birds play key ecological roles. and connect us with nature. The 1916 Migratory Bird Treaty curbed overhunting, but birds face other threats today that require international solutions.
For birds migrating to the top of the world, the warming climate could severely contract the available space they have to breed.
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Garvin Professor and Senior Director of Conservation Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Biodiversity Informatics, University of Cape Town
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Postdoc, University of Konstanz
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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Wildlife Conservation Society Canada Conservation Planning Biologist and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
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Research assistant, The University of Queensland
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PhD student in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Ph.D. Student Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich
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Senior Lecturer in Animal Cognition, Bangor University
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Assistant professor, University of Guelph
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Lund University
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Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
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Professor and Associate Dean of Science, University of Windsor
