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Library Resources for Birds

Birds
From The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Presents a comprehensive overview of the class Aves. Describes characteristics such as habitats, behaviors, physical appearance, and mating habits.

Building a Brighter Tomorrow
Audubon 126(2), Summer 2024. This article describes Flight Plan: Audubon's 2023-2028 Strategic Plan, including milestones such as identifying, protecting, and conserving bird habitats, developing bird-friendly solutions through diplomacy and advocacy, deploying renewable energy and storing carbon through natural climate solutions, and creating a network of bird lovers working together to advance their shared vision.

The Case of the Missing Birds
Science News Explores 1(3), August 2022. The article discusses the declining numbers of bird species around the world according to studies.

A Comparative Analysis of Social Play in Birds
Behaviour, 140(8/9), 2003. This study found that the adaptive significance of social play in birds offers intriguing parallels to similar analyses in mammals.

Evolution of Birds
From Encyclopedia of EvolutionConcise description of the development, characteristics, and species of birds.

Ornithology
From the Gale Encyclopedia of Science. This brief reference article describes the branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds. 

Raptors
From the Gale Encyclopedia of Science. This is a comprehensive reference article about birds of prey, including raptor biology, species description, and conseration.

Unravelling the Enigma of Bird Magnetoreception
Nature 594(7864), June 2021. This article explores the cryptochrome protein, which has the properties needed to be a magnetosensor - the means by which animals sense Earth's magnetic field and use it as a compass to determine their spatial orientation.

 

Birds
National Wildlife Federation. Explore facts and photos about birds found in and around the United States. Learn about their range, habitat, diet, life history, and more.

Guide to North American Birds
National Audubon Society.  Explore more than 800 North American bird species, learn about their lives and habitats, and how climate change is impacting their ability to survive.

How to Become an Ornithologist
Are you fascinated by our feathered dinosaur descendants and have a curious, investigative mind? Then studying birds as an ornithologist might be the career for you.

Ornithology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Studying intra-species variation and overseeing a deep collection emphasizing birds from within the region.

Ornithology: The Science of Birds
Accurate  information about wild birds from a professional ornithologist. Includes information on a variety of topics, including birdwatching, careers in ornithology, and topics in bird science.

Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink
National Audubon Society. Audubon scientists took advantage of 140 million observations, recorded by birders and scientists, to describe where 604 North American bird species live today—an area known as their “range.” They then used the latest climate models to project how each species’s range will shift as climate change and other human impacts advance across the continent.

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