We discovered that the ability to be flexible and change behaviour in certain circumstances is just as important for birds as people.
Many living organisms generate and even detect static electricity in their natural environments. We must understand more to ensure we don’t disturb these delicate processes.
Some bird species travel thousands of miles every year as part of their annual migratory journeys.
About 60% of Mexico’s forests are managed by local communities. A scholar who has studied the forests for 30 years explains how this system protects the forests and the people who oversee them.
From the archive: using misinformation to fool predators into leaving bird nests alone. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
"Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?"
Testing whether the birds react to sleight of hand helps us understand if they see the world like we do.
Eating bird food was also linked to a nearly four-fold increase in their breeding densities.
In northwest Mexico, biologists are building a network of radio towers to track how individual migratory birds move among important wetland areas.
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