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¡Nos entusiasma anunciar que el III Congreso de Ornitología de las Américas ya tiene fecha y sede!
Nos encontramos entre el 9 y el 12 de agosto, 2027, en Guanaqueros, Chile.
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![NEW ON OUR BLOG: "BYE BYE BYCATCH"
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and that was certainly true of our new method of selectively trapping songbirds. We didn't set out to engineer a remotely closing door for a feeder trap- we just needed a way to capture some cautious House Sparrows.
The overall goal of this collaborative project is to find valid indicators of welfare in a common wild bird [House Sparrow].
[...] After a few months, House Sparrows were reliably coming to the feeders, so we thought trapping them would be relatively easy. We were wrong.
[...] We put out ground traps that were specifically designed to catch House Sparrows, leaving them baited [...] so birds could habituate to them. But the House Sparrows avoided them entirely...
Pictures: a male House Sparrow perched atop a nest box, and a small flock of House Sparrows eating seeds on a feeder.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shqfdbfnatpauthx64gv6ln3/bafkreiea6bd4rpkopvq7oni6qbn372fp4hl6utiodvwvw7foe66i3jn7uu)
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Poke, gape, or escape? Diurnal anthropogenic noise disrupts Eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) incubation and nest attendance behavior
Eastern Bluebirds are often classified as an urban-adapting species. [...] These landscapes are filled with various anthropogenic noise sources such as traffic, construction, and other forms of human activity.
Eastern bluebirds willingly breed in nest boxes located in noisy areas, despite it being detrimental to their reproductive success. We hypothesized that this decrease in reproductive success is due to anthropogenic noise pollution disrupting typical incubation and nest attendance behaviors in Eastern bluebird pairs...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shqfdbfnatpauthx64gv6ln3/bafkreibem2tjnqhj4rr3eff7oyn5vt54ibader4xppdw26g5tk3xgv3mvi)
