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Toronto crews are nearing one year of monitoring a pilot project for controlling the city's pigeon population.

Ontario private member’s bill would entrench bird-safe features into the province’s building code - a move to cut down on the millions of birds killed each year

Brendon Samuels is a PhD student who began saving birds from window collisions. Now, from river cleanups to policy changes, Western’s ‘dead bird guy’ wants to keep our campus greenspace

Climate change has become a climate catastrophe, say researchers. Earth, water, fire and wind are fighting back and everyone and everything is affected. And that includes the world’s bird population.New research from Western University’s Advanced Fac

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Birds Can Switch Their Natural GPS On and Off as Needed - Industry Tap

Study from researchers at Westerns Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR), home to the worlds first hypobaric climatic wind tunnel for bird flight, explores a brain region called cluster N that migratory birds use to perceive Earths magnetic field. The team discovered the region is activated very flexibly, meaning these birds have an ability to process, or ignore, geomagnetic information, just as you may attend to music when you are interested or tune it out when you are not.

The Earth's magnetic field is not only a barrier against the Sun's cosmic radiation, it also serves as a navigation system for certain animals, such as

A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently made a surprising discovery, with the help of a wind tunnel and a flock of birds.

"Birds are amazing animals. They are extreme endurance athletes."