With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people came back. Reading time 3 minutes The pandemic had a noticeable impact on the ...

Dark-eyed juncos are small sparrows found throughout North America. Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In the spring of 2020, when humans were largely hunkered down at home amid ...

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When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it reshaped urban ecosystems to such an extent that certain city-dwelling birds ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...

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Q: I’m happy that the juncos are back, and want to put out foods they like. What do you recommend? A: You could attract dark-eyed juncos in a couple different ways. One would be to plant native plants ...

Human snow birds, my friends from Lake Villa included, are off to Florida, but avian snow birds are right here in northern Illinois. They’ll be with us until at least early April, if not longer. They ...