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Using Machine Learning to Forecast Bird Migration
PhD student Mikko Jimenez and his colleagues are using machine learning to improve our ability to forecast bird migration. Machine learning is a type…
2 years, 7 months ago
What the Pacific Wren Hears
What does the Pacific Wren hear in a song? It's a long story. What we hear as a blur of sound, the bird hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the vi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Urban Cooper’s Hawks
Next time you’re in the city, look up. When pigeons are wheeling, you might just see a different bird in pursuit. The Cooper’s Hawk, once known as th…
2 years, 7 months ago
Birding for a Better World
Molly Adams founded the Feminist Bird Club to try to make birding safer and more inclusive. Along with coauthor Sydney Golden Anderson, Molly wrote a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Roadrunner
The Greater Roadrunner is a common species in the desert and brush country of the Southwest, but its full range reaches from California to western Lo…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Music of Birds Migrating in the Night
Ornithologist Bill Evans has helped us better understand the sounds that birds make as they migrate at night. Known as nocturnal flight calls, many s…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Vampire Finch
Vampire Ground-Finches menace their victims in broad daylight, stabbing holes in their flesh, then devouring the blood. During the dry season, when t…
2 years, 7 months ago
There’s More Than One Way to Climb a Tree
No bird is better adapted for climbing up a tree trunk than a woodpecker. The foot of this Pileated Woodpecker is ideal for clinging, and its relativ…
2 years, 7 months ago
How a Bird Came to Look Like a Caterpillar
The Cinereous Mourner is a small, ashy-gray bird that lives in the forest understory of the Amazon Basin. And it’s taking mimicry to the next level: …
2 years, 7 months ago
What Makes an Efficient Flying Bird?
Every bird species uses its wings a little differently, and some are specialized for highly efficient flight. But that means going without other abil…
2 years, 7 months ago