Honey guides are nonmigratory birds, dwelling in pairs or alone in forests and savanna.
Birds is Asia, North America and South America suffered much less change in their levels of infection during warm years than did birds dwelling in Africa and Europe.
Some researchers, for example, have found evidence that birds nesting in smaller forest patches are more exposed to predators, such as house cats, than birds dwelling in larger forest reserves.
With this in mind, a team led by Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders Moller of the University of Paris-Sud set out to compare bird species dwelling near the Fukushima plant with those living at the site of another nuclear incident that scored a seven on the INES: the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl, where disaster struck in 1986.
Most small, arboreal frugivores and omnivores, and insectivores that fed from tree trunks, showed greater persistence in the mixed-rural habitat than ground dwelling bird species, which were affected most by disturbance.
(The title refers to a mountain-dwelling bird with crimson wings).
My quest was a reed-dwelling bird with an unusual name, and a fascinating story: the paddyfield warbler.
This could reduce breeding areas for many tundra-dwelling bird species and grazing lands for caribou and other mammals.
From the sea to the land to the air, EU directives on habitats and birds have protected and enabled the recovery of wildlife, including dolphins, orchids and butterflies and the booming marsh-dwelling bird the bittern.
Goshawk, any of the more powerful accipiters, or true hawks (i.e., belonging to the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers, of which the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is best known.
