The video examines bats by comparing their abilities with those of birds, rodents, and other small mammals. Footage ...
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help. By Katarina Zimmer / Knowable Magazine ...
New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...
Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term census of bats designed to complement the bird census, which will celebrate its ...
A pair of upcoming Elkhart County Parks workshops will teach participants how to help provide homes for bats and small birds.
Land use change and the increased agrochemical use associated with agricultural intensification significantly alter farmland biodiversity and associated ecosystem services worldwide. Vineyards as ...
At least some of that concern is justified. In the mid-1980s, people reported seeing piles of dead raptors at Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area near San Francisco, one of the nation’s first wind farms.
Given how many species of birds of prey hunt bats, I’m not sure this race is the best one to be partisan about! I think flying mammals would also lose out to birds in a total biomass race. Maybe ...