Study identifies traits that help birds adapt to urban living, shows better planning can bolster biodiversity

Study identifies traits that help birds adapt to urban living, shows better planning can bolster biodiversity

As cities gobble up natural spaces, some birds have learned to live alongside skyscrapers, traffic and noise—and large numbers of humans. A UCLA-led team of biologists wondered if those city-dwelling birds share common characteristics around the world that help them survive. In a paper published in Current Biology, they reveal the answer: Urban bird species […]

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A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns Are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns Are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

The title of supervisory wildlife biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service does little justice to Linda Welch (pictured above). In practice, she is the housing and unusual development secretary for seabirds on Maine’s Petit Manan Island. This was clear as she led me to nesting areas there for Atlantic puffins. Over the […]

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