by Susan Keown | Aug 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Writing for Mongabay, new member Liz Kimbrough (@lizkimbrough_) writes about new research that shows that while shade-grown coffee won’t support all bird life, set-asides of intact, non-agricultural forests by coffee plantations help preserve more species of birds,...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
In 2023, Rebecca Heisman (@r_heisman) will publish her book Flight Paths: a deep dive into the science behind the techniques scientists use to study bird migration, and the stories of the people who developed them. In the meantime, Heisman offers a bit of a preview...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
While wind turbines generate clean power, they can be deadly to birds. Eric Stavney writes about how researchers reduced deaths of some species at one facility in Norway by painting one blade per turbine black. His story for The Norweigan American discusses why birds...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Pregnancy put Adrienne Ross Scanlan in a pensive mood. In a post for the City Creatures blog for the Center for Humans and Nature, Adrienne, editor of Blue Lyra Review, contemplates starlings. Are the urban birds “weeds with wings” or a sign of freedom to a...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
Robin Lindley, , has reassuring news about pandemics in an interview with Dr Peter C. Doherty, immunologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and author of Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our...
