Australia's woodland birds include colorful parrots, flitting honeyeaters, bright blue fairywrens and the unassuming "little brown birds." Some, such as willie wagtails, laughing kookaburras and rosellas are found in urban ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2023
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Rural landscapes are changing in southern Australia. Thanks to landholders, community volunteers and Landcare groups, farms are increasingly home to corridors of trees and shrubs along creeks, and paddocks bordered by trees.
Ecology
Apr 6, 2022
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Just like humans, animals like living near coastal plains and waterways. In fact, cities such as Sydney and Melbourne are "biodiversity hotspots"—boasting fresh water, varied topographies and relatively rich soil to sustain ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2020
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Wild deer in Britain should be hunted for venison to drastically reduce their populations and support the re-emergence of our native woodland birds, according to an academic at The University of Nottingham.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2017
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Every Spring, the blanket of Australian alpine snow starts to melt, and the Mountain Pygmy Possum wakes up from its seven-month-long hibernation.
Ecology
Jan 19, 2015
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Urban breeding birds appeared to cope better with the UK's cold, wet spring of 2012 than those living in woodland.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2013
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Current approaches to deer management are failing to control a serious and growing problem, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Ecology
Mar 7, 2013
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Australia has a very good chance of being able to save most of its endangered native woodland birds, the findings of one of the biggest field studies ever conducted in this country suggest.
Ecology
Apr 23, 2012
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Sparrows, blackbirds and the great tit are all birds known to sing at a higher pitch (frequency) in urban environments. It was previously believed that these birds sang at higher frequencies in order to escape the lower frequencies ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The slow death of one of Australia's iconic wetlands is causing dramatic upheavals in its bird populations, with species from surrounding farmland moving in to replace many small woodland birds as they lose ...
Ecology
May 4, 2010
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