Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

[ad_1] My family loves watching Blue Jays visit our bird feeders! Frequently heard before being seen, jays typically don’t stay long at our feeding station. Once they land, they quickly…

[ad_1] It’s surprising to me that some people don’t enjoy seeing Blue Jays in their backyard. They think they are “bullies” and are too noisy, aggressive, and messy. I could…

[ad_1] Computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with biologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recently announced in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution a new, predictive model…

[ad_1] Every incidence of a bird being hit by an aircraft is sad, but this story is particularly shocking. On November 19, 2022, a United Airlines flight from Chicago was…

[ad_1] A long, long time ago, geese did not migrate south in the autumn, but remained in the land of the north throughout the winter. At last one goose had…

[ad_1] Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Navy announced that one bird and four plant species from San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the Channel…

[ad_1] The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, which took place in December 2022, ended in an agreement by hundreds of countries to protect 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded…

[ad_1] Fleeing isn’t the only way by which songbirds can protect themselves against predators. Many songbird species are known to engage in mobbing, where they gather aggressively around a bird…

[ad_1] A documentary film about bird rehabilitators in India’s capital city is among the five nominees for the best documentary feature film of 2022. All That Breathes was released in…

[ad_1] Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2023Birders added more than 9 million photos to the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library in 2022 alone. From bee-eaters to Bat Falcons, kingfishers to cockatoos,…