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Tag: Birds

Hostetler Lab Shows How City Forests and Residential Areas Can Benefit Birds


May 18, 2021

By Katrina Rossos Often ignored, cities contain many small forest fragments and residential areas that offer tree canopy cover and a variety of native plants, which are both ideal environments for an array of species. “It’s evolved over ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Birds, Department Of Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, Wildlife, Wildlife Ecology

Them’s fighting birds: Study identifies other species’ influence on territorial aggression


April 19, 2021

Featured image above shows a tufted titmouse. Photo courtesy of Autumn Rose, Florida Museum of Natural History.   Bird aggression often occurs between birds of the same species. However, a new study found that birds of both the same ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: Birds, Department Of Wildlife Ecology And Conservation, Katie Sieving, Research, UF/IFAS Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

The Case of the Disappearing Birds: Avian Flyways and the Need for Conservation


November 30, 2016

Each week on the blog we pull back the curtain on our Wildlife Ecology & Conservation graduate students’ seminar class. This post is by master’s student Elysia Webb. Dr. Lisa Davenport had a mystery on her hands: her birds kept disappearing. During ... READ MORE

Category: Coasts & Marine, Conservation, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching, Wildlife
Tags: Amazon, Avian, Birds, Conservation, Flyways, Peru, Rainforest, Tracking