A new video to help aviators identify the cause of bird strikes has been posted on YouTube by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services Airport Wildlife Hazard Program and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
A recent decline in Ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla), a ground-nesting migratory songbird, in forests in the northern Midwest United States is being linked by scientists to a seemingly unlikely culprit: earthworms.
Despite the general perception of exurban development as environmentally preferable to urban sprawl, this is not necessarily correct. Housing development is detrimental for natural bird communities even at low housing levels.
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