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During the fall migration season, over 4 billion birds in North America pass over our heads while we are sound asleep. Scientists use a number of technologies to understand more about birds’ migratory patterns.
In our newest TikTok, Echo reporter Genevieve Fox talks about this year’s bird flu outbreak and gives a tutorial on how to clean your birdfeeder.
Ring-billed gulls travel between populated beaches and human waste sites like landfills and water treatment plants, carrying human pathogens with them.
After birds lay their eggs and their fledglings take off in the spring, you might have an empty bird box at this point. Should you clean out the nest they leave behind?
Migratory bird patterns are shifting as temperatures increase in North America, leaving birds to find new sources of food and adjust to the warmer climate, according to a new study
Birds that rely on aquatic insects for food have declined for decades.
Two new projects will use over $500,000 to help the declining pheasant population in Illinois by improving habitat, experts say.
Scientists are looking at the diet of bank swallows to understand what is causing their population decline.
The third part of a 5-part series on trans-border U.S. and Canadian environmental research projects.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has logged more than 1,000 public comments on a proposed rule that would give state agencies more choices in controlling cormorants that some anglers complain eat too many fish in the Great Lakes and inland waters. New options
would include lethal means.