The unfortunate and likely end result of this Moustached Kingfisher controversy is that the task of raising funds for bird research, already a major challenge, is only made more difficult.
Category: conservation
Killing Birds: invasive species in Hawaii
Invasive species have absolutely wrecked Hawaii’s native ecosystems and despite best efforts of committed conservation groups the native birds and plants are rapidly being lost.
Teaching biodiversity
My goal is to open these students’ eyes to astounding nature sitting right in their ‘backyards,’ to use these local resources as teaching tools for global biodiversity challenges.
Killing Birds: Glass
…as of yet, there are no ‘bird-friendly’ colleges and universities in the US. Duke is uniquely poised to be the first.
Killing birds: Feed me meow!
Imagine all the cats in your neighborhood running around with bibs or frilly rainbow collars. That’s a sight that birds and I would love to see.
To bird is to conserve: prospects for the endangered birds of Hispaniola
Bird everywhere you go, especially if you visit hotspots, which represent the front lines of conservation crises.
The Fate of Forests on Duke’s Campus
“…over the years and decades forests on campus have been gradually chipped away for construction…”
Want to help birds? Be a Citizen Scientist
An army of robotic, automated microphones and cameras may eventually render all us birders and field naturalists irrelevant, but in the meantime, scientists are tapping into our collective expertise to advance knowledge of biodiversity patterns across spatial scales all over the world.