Tag: Birds
I used facial recognition technology on birds
Lewis Barnett, University of Richmond
As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers...
Bird DNA helps explain Amazonian rivers’ role in evolution
Luciano Nicolas Naka, Harvard University
When the young naturalist Alfred R. Wallace left England to explore the New World in 1848, one of his key...
The Trump administration’s new migratory bird policy undermines a century of...
Amanda Rodewald, Cornell University
The Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for...
Super-black feathers can absorb virtually every photon of light that hits...
Dakota McCoy, Harvard University
What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common? Both have invented incredibly dark, “super-black” surfaces that absorb almost every last...
When birds go roaming: The mystery of avian irruptions
Archer Larned, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Sarah Luttrell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In North America when the leaves start to fall and...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
