They are small songbirds, but they are deadly. The loggerhead shrike, or "butcherbird," is slowly declining in Ohio.

Turkey numbers in Kansas are easing downward, and predator risk mixed with habitat strain is reshaping recovery seasons at a ...

Q: Are colorfully feathered male birds the target for predators — that is, colorful in order to draw attention away from the less colorful female birds? I have read that the colorful male birds are ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Two endangered birds that nest on the Missouri River system will get some extra protection under a predator control plan written by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It spells out ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire fences and promptly impale the prey upon a thorn or barb. This behavior ...

Intro; Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: How to Study Predator Recognition; 1.1 Observation in the Wild; 1.2 Experiments; 1.2.1 Experiments on Nests; 1.2.2 Experiments on Winter Feeders ...

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Researchers used artificial nests to test two methods for reducing the nest predation of vulnerable and endangered ground-nesting birds. The study showed that red foxes can be more easily deceived ...