The New York Times

The Parrot, Its Parasites and a Shared Struggle to Escape Extinction

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble? By Jacey Fortin For decades, the kakapo has been ...
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30% reduced glide efficiency: How turbine wakes negatively affect soaring birds

Wind turbines may seem innocuous enough, but they have the potential to reshape the air birds fly through. In a recent ...
NPR

As hundreds of millions of birds head south, the invisible danger is glass

Just after dawn in Washington, D.C., Stephanie Haley is walking a familiar downtown route, scanning the sidewalk next to office buildings. There, huddled on the ground, is a motionless olive-green ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Colorado’s winter birds are ‘extraordinary survivors’ that grow ‘snowshoes,’ build snow caves and stash thousands of seeds

Winters in the Colorado Rocky Mountains can be long and formidable. Before the snow flies, thousands of birds migrate each fall to escape the cold. Mary Harris, the chair of the Roaring Fork Audubon, ...