Delivering Good News on the Stork
Pushed by human development onto the endangered list, the American wood stork is wading back to its historical haunts in the swampy Southeast.
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The Value of Dead Bird Watching
University of Washington researcher Julia Parrish founded COASST, a nonprofit that allows hundreds of citizens to serve science by cataloging dead birds on West Coast beaches.
Bald Eagles Will Eat Almost Anything
The top predator on California's northern Channel Islands might start dining on recovering foxes and seabirds, scientists warn.
The Primitive Science of Restoration
Biologists seek to "do no harm," improve island health, get rid of human-introduced predators and untangle complex relationships that developed on the fly.
These Art Critics Love to Ruffle Feathers
Professor Shigeru Watanabe from Keio University in Japan, writing in the journal Animal Cognition, says pigeons can use color, pattern and texture to distinguish good paintings from bad.