Surveilling wetlands for infectious bird flu — and finding it
Recently, morning omelets and holiday dinners have gotten more expensive. One likely cause is bird flu, outbreaks of which led ...
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Heat waves harm bird reproduction on agricultural lands
Bird populations are in rapid decline across North America. While climate change is just one of the many factors influencing North ...
Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration, study finds
Graphics It's well-known that birds and other animals rely on Earth's magnetic field for long-distance navigation during seasonal migrations. But ...
Bird species changing faster than expected in protected areas
A recent study by University of Helsinki researchers has found that bird communities inside and outside protected areas are beginning ...
Chinese paleontologists find new fossil link in bird evolution
Birds descended from theropod dinosaurs by the Late Jurassic, but our understanding of the earliest evolution of the Avialae, the ...
Hundreds of Andean bird species at risk due to deforestation: New research shows how to protect them
Birds native to the tropical Andes, many of which cannot be found anywhere else, are threatened by increasing agricultural development ...
Interest in bird feeding surged in over 100 countries worldwide during the COVID-19 lockdowns
Interest in local bird feeding appears to have ramped up in countries all over the world during the pandemic lockdowns, ...
Secondary school students have difficulty identifying bird species
In Western societies, the way nature and the environment are understood is very important, as knowledge of them can influence environmental attitudes. Environmental ...
European bird communities move to cooler areas, but mountain ranges and coastlines ‘control the traffic’
A recent study shows that European bird communities have shifted northeastward in the past 30 years. These shifts are faced ...
CSU biologists document genome-level climate adaptation in endangered bird species
As the climate changes, living things must adapt to new environmental conditions in one of two ways – either geographically ...
Genetic change increased bird flu severity during U.S. spread
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – May 29, 2023) St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists discovered how the current epizootic H5N1 avian influenza ...
Bird brains can flick switch to perceive Earth’s magnetic field
Earth’s magnetic field, generated by the flow of molten iron in the planet’s inner core, extends out into space and ...
Smallest shifting fastest: Bird species body size predicts rate of change in a warming world
Photos Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and longer-winged as the world warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing ...
What does it take to thrive in cities, if you’re a bird?
Key takeaways A UCLA-led research team created an “urban association index” that describes how closely bird species are associated with living ...
50-year study offers insight into effects of climate on bird reproduction
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assessed changes in the ...
Fallow land promotes bird diversity
In recent decades, many of Germany’s animal populations in agricultural landscapes have experienced sharp declines, both in terms of the ...
New neural network uses common sense to make fake bird images from text
In an effort to generate high-quality images based on text descriptions, a group of researchers in China built a generative ...
Why this bird flu is different: scientists say new avian influenza requires urgent coordinated response
A highly pathogenic avian influenza has been spreading in the U.S., making headlines as the price of eggs soared at ...
Unraveling nature’s chorus: AI detects bird sounds in Taiwan’s montane forests
Montane forests, known as biodiversity hotspots, are among the ecosystems facing threats from climate change. To comprehend potential impacts of ...
Bird flu associated with hundreds of seal deaths in New England in 2022, Tufts researchers find
Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University found that an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was ...