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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Urban bird"”.
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Attraction and risk in urban bird habitats
Urban expansion is an increasing threat to native bird populations. Consequently, maintaining and developing safe urban habitat space is necessary for conservation. Birds living in, or migrating through, urban areas utilize a variety of managed green-spaces such as parks, gardens, college campuses, …
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Urban green infrastructures: an assessment of urban bird diversity, abundance and behaviour associated with green walls and street trees in Manchester and Salford, UK.
Urbanisation is a worldwide process with serious wellbeing impacts on people and wildlife. Reconciliation ecology, a novel approach to conservation, is particularly relevant for urban conservation as new habitats can be established and maintained. Street trees and green walls are examples of …
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Cities for birds, birds for cities: The urban ecology of birds across scales from global sampling to individual responses
Urbanization is transforming ecosystems worldwide, yet our ability to understand how birds persist in cities is limited by biased data and a focus on coarse occurrence patterns. This thesis examines the urban ecology of birds across scales, from a global standardized monitoring framework to …
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Urbanization's Effects on Avian Morphology, Hormones, and Behavior Across Ontogeny
… the remaining natural areas of the world. Urban-related stressors, such as lower food availability, the urban heat island, artificial light at night, and other pollution directly impact urban wildlife biodiversity and fitness. How wildlife cope and adapt to these urban modification's vary, …
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Rethinking Urban Green Infrastructure as a Means to Promote Avian Conservation
… an under-recognized potential for cities to use urban green infrastructure to contribute to avian biodiversity conservation. At the global scale, climate change and growing urbanization are primary global drivers leading to decline and homogenization in world bird populations. Birds are …
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Wild American crows use funerals to learn about danger
… and that this behavior is not shared by another urban bird: the rock pigeon (Columba livia). Novel humans paired with a dead crow, a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), and a hawk with a dead crow all evoked mobbing and decreased foraging by crows, while pairing with a dead pigeon did not. These …