What can save the desert's most tenacious birds? Tiny underground apartments.
In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...
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Desert birds are the first to feel the effects of a warming planet. They need our help
Desert birds live on the edge ... It’s been nearly 25 years since I finished my study of phainopeplas in the Sonoran Desert of California and moved east. I work at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ...
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Curve-Billed Thrasher
The curve-billed thrasher—the common thrasher of the rich, cactus-laden Sonoran Desert—can be very conspicuous ... particularly in eastern birds. Tail has pale tips, the extent of which ...
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SAVING THE CACTUS FERRUGINOUS PYGMY OWL
They’re as fierce as they are small: These 2.5-ounce raptors prey on birds twice their size and feed lizards to their chicks. Sadly they’re no match for urban development gobbling up their unique ...
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COLLAPSE of a desert bird community over the past century driven by climate change
Global Change Biology 24(12): 5882–5894. McCreedy, C., and C. van Riper. 2014. Drought-caused delay in nesting of Sonoran Desert birds and its facilitation of parasiteand predator-mediated variation ...
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Invasive species, drought make the Sonoran Desert 'a fire-prone ecosystem'
Watching the wildfires devastate a major U.S. city has many of us wondering: Could it happen here? Research shows our ecosystem is changing, making us more at risk to wildfire than ever before.
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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
check out Sonoran Desert Birds, Drawing and Painting the Desert, and Flight School: Photographing Birds in Flight, Students can even earn a Nature Illustration Certification. The classes cover a ...