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Understanding the Risk to Neotropical Migrant Bird Species of Multiple Human-Caused Stressors: Elucidating Processes Behind the Patterns.

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2006
Ubiquitous human-caused changes to the environment act as multiple stressors for organisms in the wild, and the effects of these stressors may be synergistic, rather than merely additive, with unexpected results.
Ralph S. Hames   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Responses of birds and mammals to long-established wind farms in India

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Wind turbines have been recognised as an alternative and clean-energy source with a low environmental impact. The selection of sites for wind-farm often creates serious conservation concerns on biodiversity.
Honnavalli N. Kumara   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Birds specimens of the zoological collection of the Universidad de Nariño, Colombia

open access: yesBiota Colombiana, 2022
We provide a complete dataset of bird specimens of the zoological collection at the Universidad de Nariño, Colombia. For every specimen, we reviewed taxonomic identifications to species level by applying curatorial procedures, including the comparison of
Jhon Jairo Calderón Leytón   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen Science as a Tool for Conservation in Residential Ecosystems

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2007
Human activities, such as mining, forestry, and agriculture, strongly influence processes in natural systems. Because conservation has focused on managing and protecting wildlands, research has focused on understanding the indirect influence of these ...
Caren B. Cooper   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Being There. If the Pairing of the Birdwatchers Affects the Pairing of the Birds

open access: yesRelations, 2022
The drives of inter-individual relationships within avian social groups are largely unexplored and relatively poorly understood, including how social landscapes affect the decisions of individuals within these groups.
Evangelina W. Uskoković   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeo-Ornithology: Towards an Archaeology of Human-Bird Interfaces

open access: yesEnvironmental Archaeology, 2019
This editorial introduces Archaeo-Ornithology as a distinct field of inquiry and discusses its multidisciplinary background and potential contribution to a more nuanced characterisation of changing human-animal interfaces through time and space.
C. Kost, S. T. Hussain
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Review of ‘Audubon’s Birds of America’ at the National Museum of Scotland

open access: yes19, 2022
This is a review of the exhibition ‘Audubon’s Birds of America’, held at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh from 12 February to 8 May 2022.
Peter Adkins
doaj   +2 more sources

Le programme Feederwatch et la politique des grands nombres

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires, 2004
Feederwatch program is a project dedicated to counting birds at feeders in the backyard of participants from November to April, since 1988. This program uses statistical means to calculate trends in the evolution of bird populations and areas of ...
Florian Charvolin
doaj   +1 more source

A Successful Crowdsourcing Approach for Bird Sound Classification

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2023
Automated recorders are increasingly used in remote sensing of wildlife, yet automated methods of processing the audio remains challenging. Identifying animal sounds with machine learning provides a solution, but optimizing the models requires annotated ...
Petteri Lehikoinen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical and conceptual aspects of ethno-ornithology [PDF]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2007
Ethno-ornithology describes and analyzes the knowledge of local people, providing a comprehension of the relationships between humans and birds. This work consists of an historical review on ethno-ornithology.
Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves   +1 more
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