Picking up baby birds can do more harm than good
After hatching in spring, baby birds sometimes end up on the ground, but that doesn't necessarily mean they need help.
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2021
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News tagged with fledglings
Habitat needs of nestling and fledgling songbirds
Both before and after they leave the nest, baby birds face a host of challenges. A new study in The Condor: Ornithological Applications examining songbird survival in the nestling and fledgling stages finds that even in the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2016
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Scientists ask bird oglers to help study puffins (Update)
The Audubon Society wants bird lovers to contribute research to a project scientists hope will help save Atlantic puffins from starvation in Maine.
Ecology
Aug 6, 2014
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Clever design sees rats disappear and native fauna flourish
Black rat numbers on Penguin Island have declined significantly while penguins and other native animals are flourishing, thanks to a baiting system that was introduced on the island one year ago.
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2014
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Climate change disrupts songbird's timing without impacting population size (yet)
Songbird populations can handle far more disrupting climate change than expected. Density-dependent processes are buying them time for their battle. But without (slow) evolutionary rescue it will not save them in the end, ...
Ecology
Apr 25, 2013
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Scheming chicks blackmail doting parents for more food
Fledglings of a southern African bird species threaten suicide to blackmail their parents into bringing them more food, scientists said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2013
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For birds, the suburbs may not be an ideal place to raise a family
There comes a time in life for every bird to spread its wings and leave the nest, but for gray catbirds, that might be the beginning of the end. Smithsonian scientists report fledgling catbirds in suburban habitats are at ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2011
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