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World Migratory Bird Day: Protect Insects, Protect Birds!

World Migratory Bird Day 2024 (11 May) shines a spotlight on the relationship between migratory birds and insects amidst alarming declines for both. World Migratory Bird Day is a global campaign that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here’s What’s Being Done to Save Them Both

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...
New Scientist

Animal motion-capture studio tracks bird flocks and insect swarms

An animal behaviour lab built inside a converted barn uses motion-capture cameras to track the movements and behaviours of entire flocks of birds or swarms of insects. The so-called SMART-BARN ...
The Conversation

I surveyed 17 million insects flying through a Pyrenean mountain pass – here’s what I learned about these ‘remarkable migrants’

William Hawkes received research funding from The Royal Society for his PhD. In 1950, ornithologists Elizabeth and David Lack were watching birds migrate through a Pyrenean mountain pass on the border ...