Birds Vanish First: Why Ecosystems Collapse Before We Notice

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Audubon program features early pioneers of bird field guides

The Southeastern Vermont Audubon Society will host a special program on Tuesday, Jan. 20, about bird field guides from the late 19th and early 20th century. David Spector ...
Austin American-Statesman

'Field of Light' comes to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Here's what you need to know

We've been waiting all summer, and it's finally here, even if fall temperatures are not. "Field of Light," a massive light installation at Lady Bird Wildflower Center, opens Sept. 9. The arrival of ...
Oregonian

This field guide finally gives Northwest birds the razzing they so richly deserve

Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...
Chicago Tribune

Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago, Field study shows

Some Chicago birds are nesting nearly a month earlier than they did more than a century ago. And like some other shifts happening around the Great Lakes region as temperatures rise and the timing of ...
Inverse

Landmark study finally decodes how birds use Earth's magnetic field as a map

Birds don’t carry smartphones under their wings. When they migrate, GPS isn’t telling them exactly when to turn left and right, or when they’ve “arrived” at their final destination. Instead, they ...

Scientists are learning how noise affects Bay Area wildlife as they work to conserve wetland birds amid a roaring urban soundscape

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...
The Enterprise

D.W. Field Park partially reopens after positive bird flu results. What's open, what's not

BROCKTON — D.W. Field Park partially reopened to the public on Friday after being closed for three weeks over concerns about bird flu. "D.W. Field Park is now reopen to the public," the city of ...