New bird habitat built on university campus
University students and conservationists are collaborating to build a new on-campus bird habitat. The University of Worcester ...
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Can't Read It, Don't Feed It: Why Wild Bird-Lovers Should Choose Top-of-the-Crop Natural Feed
Fillers not only lack nutritional value; birds will kick them right out of the feeder. Select natural feed comprised of top-of-the-crop seeds and bypass seed coated with chemicals and mineral oil.
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Psittacine bird crop gavage feeding
A safe volume for crop feeding is 3–5% of the bird's body weight 3. The following formula can be used to determine the volume to feed: volume (ml) = BMR (kcal)/caloric density of the diet (kcal ...
About a third of bird species in U.S. need conservation help, new report says
State of the Birds report identifies 112 "tipping point" species — those that have lost more than half their populations in ...
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Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields—new research
Our new research is one of the first to study the impact of solar farms on birds in the UK. And, hectare-for-hectare, we found that solar farms in the farm-rich East Anglian countryside that were ...
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Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research
Joshua Copping receives funding from The Natural Environment Resource Council (NERC) and is employed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The UK’s installed capacity of solar ...