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Domestic cats kill 2.4 billion birds annually in US; scientists made bright cat collars which reduce bird kills by 61%
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (387+ words) Experiments & Discoveries News: Domestic cats can be effective hunters of birds, but a simple change to what they wear may make it harder for them to catch their flying prey. A study....
Sea lions learned to wait below Bonneville Dam, and the fish ladder meant to help salmon became a dinner bell
28+ min ago (646+ words) Home - Environment - Sea lions learned to wait below Bonneville Dam, and the fish ladder meant to help salmon became a dinner bell At Bonneville Dam on the Oregon-Washington border, the sea lions from California learned that they can “wait for…...
Monkeys Hunt Dangerous Prey When Fruit Runs Out, 45-Month Study Finds
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (282+ words) When fruit disappears, bearded capuchins switch from foraging to hunting, targeting everything from lizards and rodents to snakes, iguanas, and young birds....
No, This 4-Foot-Tall Chicken Isn’t AI
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (719+ words) The thought of a super tall chicken sounds utterly insane. However, such chickens do exist and have existed for decades. We're talking about the massive Indio Gigante chicken. The images of a Velociraptor-looking chicken on @tosglobalx's Instagram do not look…...
Above the Waterline: Atlanta's disappearing tree canopy
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (184+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Twenty-seven years ago, I bought a house because I fell in love with a tree. The huge silver maple growing through the elevated deck attached to the back of the house captured my heart the…...
Abandoned mines emerge as bird-rich habitats in Delhi’s Asola-Bhatti: Study
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (439+ words) New Delhi: Abandoned mining areas in Delhi’s Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary have emerged as the most bird-rich habitat among those studied, with researchers finding that former quarries now support a diverse combination of scrub, grassland, rocky terrain and water pools. Researchers…...
An Iowa man built his six-inch parakeet a miniature submarine so the bird could join him underwater in the Bahamas — the homemade capsule used a paintball air tank, safety valves and an oxygen monitor and carried Bebe about three feet beneath the surface for 15 minutes
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (286+ words) Six inches of green parakeet hovering over a Bahamian reef, squinting at coral through the wall of a repurposed food container, is an image evolution had not...
U.S. farmers lost conservation experts in Trump's federal cuts. Now they're hurting for help
14+ hour, 6+ min ago (1609+ words) On a hot summer day, John Williams is walking through the vegetable farm he manages in central Illinois. “All these white tubes coming up are tree tubes,” he said, “so they’re little protections for newly planted trees.” Hazelnut, apple and…...
Shorebirds in the desert
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (24+ words) This post is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts...
India, Nepal and Indonesia report zero Rhino poaching in 2025, but habitat loss remains a major threat- Moneycontrol.com
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (902+ words) India, Nepal and Indonesia recorded zero reported rhino poaching in 2025, marking an important step in efforts to protect some of Asia's most threatened rhino populations. But conservationists warn that stopping poachers is only part of the challenge. The International Rhino…...