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A Eurasian reed warbler carrying an insect in its beak
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Magnetic Stop Signs Show Birds the Way Home

by Jenessa Duncombe 14 February 202214 February 2022

Just like salmon and sea turtles, these songbirds appear to be sensitive to shifts in the magnetic field.

Birds flying over a city at dawn
Posted inNews

Bright Lights, Big Cities Attract Migratory Birds

by Brian Phan 14 December 202121 March 2022

The first stopover site map for U.S. migratory birds reveals the attraction of urban light pollution.

Four cormorants stand atop a channel marker.
Posted inScience Updates

Cormorants Are Helping Characterize Coastal Ocean Environments

by R. A. Orben, A. G. Peck-Richardson, G. Wilson, D. Ardağ and J. A. Lerczak 23 September 202121 March 2022

The Cormorant Oceanography Project is using sensors deployed on diving marine birds to collect broadly distributed oceanographic data in coastal regions around the world.

Researchers discovered a correlation between a mass bird die-off and wildfires.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mass Bird Die-Off Linked to Wildfires and Toxic Gases

by Joshua Learn 26 March 202118 October 2021

Using observations from crowdsourced science and weather location data, researchers concluded that wildfires caused a mass die-off of birds in the western and central United States in 2020.

An excavation conducted at an Adélie penguin colony on Earle Island (one of theDanger Islands), Antarctica.
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Penguin Poop Keeps a Record of Antarctic Glaciation

by B. Bedford 11 December 20184 October 2021

Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Cooling Galápagos Sea Surface Temperatures Affect Local Penguins

by David Shultz 23 November 201512 January 2022

The Galápagos cold pool is expanding northward as a result of climate change, and local penguin populations are rising.

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Birds Ignore Volcano Blast, Puzzle Scientists

by JoAnna Wendel 23 September 201511 January 2022

When a nearby volcano unexpectedly erupted in the midst of a behavioral study of Andean condors in Argentina, the researchers scrambled to observe disruption to condors' lives. Oddly, there was none.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Survey Shows Where Arctic Marine Bird Populations Thrive

by C. Minnehan 4 March 201514 January 2022

"Hot spots" of species richness currently include the Bering Sea, Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay, and Davis Strait. Will this change as sea ice melts?

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