Across the continental United States, climate change is affecting the migration cycles and body condition
of migratory songbirds, causing decoupling of the arrival dates of birds on their breeding grounds and the availability of the food they need for successful reproduction.
Effective conservation
of migratory songbirds requires an understanding of how populations are connected between seasons.
It found that a warmer climate could affect the paths
of its migratory songbirds and threaten extinction on its only native trout.
Not exact matches
Tracking the effects
of a neonicotinoid insecticide on
migratory songbirds.
And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a few years ago in its fourth assessment in 2007, said to the Europeans — but it could have been to the Americans for that matter in a different context — Europeans if you care for your
songbirds, as Europeans really do, look to Africa and how African habitats are doing: 84 percent
of the
migratory birds in the world are vulnerable to climate change.
McWilliams and a colleague at the University
of Wisconsin measured the spare capacity
of white - throated sparrows, a common
migratory songbird in eastern North America.
Migratory songbirds of the Pacific Northwest, researchers have learned, produce up to three times as many offspring when El Niño greens up their wintering grounds down south.
This radical solution to conflict between parental care and the annual molt provides «a nice illustration
of the complex lives that
migratory songbirds lead,» says Ron Mumme, the study's author and Professor
of Biology at Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania.
According to a new study by biologists at Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian
Migratory Bird Center, the offspring
of a certain
songbird, the wood thrush, are more likely to survive drought in larger forest plots that offer plenty
of shade and resources.
New findings from Western University support the scientific opinion that mercury is one
of the determining factors for the dramatic declines
of many
migratory songbird populations across North America.
Furthermore, movement - independent ZENK expression in the forebrain
of night -
migratory birds performing magnetic orientation at night is confined to Cluster N [with the strongest activation in distinct subregions (the shell surrounding the DNH nucleus)-RSB-, as shown by the detailed quantification
of ZENK expression within Cluster N performed in this study], and this expression massively decreased in corresponding brain areas
of non-
migratory songbirds and in all bird species during daytime [13].
Boasting 25 miles
of walking trails, the island offers two lighthouses, terrific views
of the sea and one
of the most important
migratory songbird habitats in the world (70 species stop over on the island each fall!).
«These animals were brought in alive and do not include those that died or were not found... [This] includes 36 [bird] species, many
of which are
songbirds or locally rare, sensitive, or
migratory species; all are supposed to be protected by law from illegal take.»
Many species
of migratory birds, wading birds, and
songbirds nest or migrate throughout New Jersey.
A recent study by David Mizrahi
of New Jersey Audubon and Jeff Buler
of the University
of Delaware, revealed that the Great Cypress Swamp is one
of the two most important stopover sites in Delaware for neotropical
migratory songbirds during the spring and fall migrations.