Abstract: Artificial nests have been used to study factors affecting nest success because researchers can manipulate them more than natural bird nests. Many researchers have questioned the validity of ...

Two artificial islands created for seabird nesting have been rebuilt, and are more successful than biologists had hoped, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says. The state’s goal was ...

Three offshore artificial nest towers can each house around 500 birds. A major offshore wind farm provider has just completed the construction of three massive artificial nesting structures (ANS) ...

Numerous migratory bird routes pass through the Island of Hainan HAIKOU, April 23. /TASS/. China's Hainan is creating a network of safe artificial nests along migratory bird routes to prevent short ...

Artificial nests boost the breeding success of endangered penguins, reveals new research. But there’s no "one-size-fits-all" design that proves ultimately successful, say scientists. Different designs ...

Researchers used artificial nests to test two methods for reducing the nest predation of vulnerable and endangered ground-nesting birds. The study showed that red foxes can be more easily deceived ...

Every spring, a large number of ground-nests of farmland birds are accidentally destroyed by mechanical operations, such as ploughing and sowing. A new study shows for the first time that such nests ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic waste in the structure. Reading time 3 minutes Plastic may have started a new ...

As urban development and climate change reshape Islamabad’s natural environment, WWF-Pakistan has stepped in with an initiative aimed at protecting cavity and hole-nesting birds. Species like ...

Artificial nests can boost the breeding success of endangered African penguins, but different designs are more effective at different colonies according to a new study. Artificial nests can boost the ...

Darcy Watchorn receives funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation, Parks Victoria, the Conservation and Wildlife Research Trust, the Ecological Society of Australia, the Victorian Environmental ...