Sentences with phrase «in urban birds»

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The Passenger Pigeon is currently installed in the Urban Bird Habitat Garden at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Not exact matches

All ages Birds of prey and their habitats are fascinating, as are the adjustments they've made to thrive in urban environments.

Steve Sullivan, Senior Curator of Urban Ecology at Notebaert Nature Museum: When you're flying along as a bird during the day and you see a pane of glass in front of you, that glass is often reflecting trees and sky.

So there you have it, me at the foot of the garden under the weeping birch, cats at my feet, G&T in hand, the roar of the city traffic defeated by the cacophony of urban bird life and, if I'm very still, a mildly curious glance from an all - too - cocky fox.

Birds living in urban areas rarely get any peace and must cope with almost constant disturbance from both humans and their pets

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

Red and yellow male house finches eat at a bird feeder in an urban Phoenix backyard.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

These cats, especially if left to proliferate, are frequently considered to be pests in both rural and urban areas, and may be blamed for devastating the bird, reptile and mammal populations, and digging up people's gardens.

So if growing up in an urban setting shortens birds» telomeres, it could lead to a host of other problems down the line, the team argues.

Most research exploring patterns of species survival has focused on birds; little is known about the physiological mechanisms that allow mammals to survive in urban environments.

Dr Bateman said in Australia there were many species of birds, mammals and reptiles that live moderately well in urban areas, and had plans to explore their behavioural responses to various human activities in the future.

Yet, according to a new study involving 147 cities worldwide, surprisingly high numbers of plant and animal species persist and even flourish in urban environments — to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city.

«The impact that urbanisation has on wildlife must be studied much more, or we won't be able to understand the threats that birds are exposed to in urban environments, and won't be able to do anything about them.

Conserving green spaces, restoring native plant species and adding biodiversity - friendly habitats within urban landscapes could, in turn, support more bird and plant species.

«Roads, urban features influence their choice of gardens, electronic tracking of song birds shows: Bird feeders visited more often in suburban gardens than terraced streets.»

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

They then attached scanners to 51 bird feeders, filled with bird seed, in the gardens of urban terraced homes, a green suburban neighbourhood and a new - build estate.

Black - billed magpies and American crows, both members of the clever corvid family of birds, have adapted comfortably to life in urban and suburban communities.

New Yorks Urban Park Rangers also released 24 eastern screech owls (Otus asio) in Central Park between 1998 and 2002, and two fledglings hatched this spring, offspring of the reintroduced birds.

As a result, at least a dozen species of birds of prey now make their homes in urban areas.

Though the states bald eagle population has been steadily increasing since the late 1970s, the birds havent shown a fondness for urban real estate, preferring to nest in forested areas along the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.

Humankind is loud, and research already suggests that birds alter their singing in urban noise.

A species of urban bird seems to harness the toxic chemicals in cigarette butts in its fight against nest parasites — although there is a downside to the practice.

For instance, researchers had shown that birds in urban environments seemed more likely to contract the ailment, although scientists do not yet know why.

The big question which remains for ecologists is whether birds in cities are evolving to suit their new urban environment.

We found rural great tits were very consistent in the way they behaved towards an intruder over two consecutive days, but urban birds showed lower levels of consistent behaviour.

It's an oasis of green island in this urban sea around us and because of that, birds, especially on migration, are drawn to it.

Pigments in the feathers of birds with dark plumage may help the creatures rid their bloodstream of some toxic metals, thereby helping them better survive in urban or other polluted areas, a new study suggests.

In a new study published in Landscape and Urban Planning, researchers show that areas in the eastern U.S. with high deer numbers tend to have fewer birds that need forest shrubIn a new study published in Landscape and Urban Planning, researchers show that areas in the eastern U.S. with high deer numbers tend to have fewer birds that need forest shrubin Landscape and Urban Planning, researchers show that areas in the eastern U.S. with high deer numbers tend to have fewer birds that need forest shrubin the eastern U.S. with high deer numbers tend to have fewer birds that need forest shrubs.

The study, involving hundreds of people, found benefits for mental health of being able to see birds, shrubs and trees around the home, whether people lived in urban or more leafy suburban neighbourhoods.

I'm clearly never going to be in Sweet and Filardi's league — Sweet manages the museum's climate - controlled mass grave of bird corpses; Filardi spends months on end living in a hut made of leaves on the Solomon Islands, extracting birds» DNA — but even I, an urban sophisticate with a belly full of latte, experience an ineffable, or barely effable, satisfaction at the sight of a twitching organism ringed by darkness.

A study in open - access journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution finds that compared to sparrows living in the country, urban - dwelling birds show clear signs of stress linked to the toxic effects of air pollution and an unhealthy diet.

It seems like living in the urban jungle has given birds street smarts, too, according to researchers from the McGill University in Quebec, Canada.

All in all, pigeons carry no more diseases than other urban birds, and yet we don't persecute and malign hawks or crows that live next door to us.

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A backyard chicken hangs out in a portable coop in Silver Spring, Md., a close - in suburb of Washington, D.C. Backyard birds have become popular in urban and suburban areas, but a new CDC report documents a record high number of salmonella infections linked to these domestic flocks.

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In urban environments, green roofs help attract the birds and butterflies and provide cleaner air, offsetting our carbon footprint and helping combat global warming.

While urban youth search parks, yards, and tree - lined streets for birds such as the barn swallow, the American crow, and the mourning dove, young birders in the suburbs and rural areas do the same.

Since Celebrate Urban Birds took flight in May, more than 10,000 participants nationwide, many of them teachers, have requested the project's free starter kits.

Students look at the threats to local bird species, as well as the requirements they need to live happily in urban environments.

Maps are clear and well rendered, and the navigation system offers an impressive selection of views including a very useful bird's eye perspective, which we found particularly helpful when driving in urban situations.

In his presentation Feral and Free - ranging Cats and Urban Birds, Steve Holzman, South Atlantic Geographic Area Data Manager for USFWS, argued that if the goal of PIF is to «keep common birds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignBirds, Steve Holzman, South Atlantic Geographic Area Data Manager for USFWS, argued that if the goal of PIF is to «keep common birds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignbirds common,» predation by cats simply can't be ignored.

The authors» «intermediate» figure of «38.7 million birds killed by rural cats» [13] is based on the results of a study involving just four «urban» cats and one rural cat in Virginia [14, 15](this, in addition to Coleman and Temple's several flawed assumptions).

Soulé, M.E., et al., «Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral - Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands.»

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.