The results identified a 12% increase in the presence of insectivorous birds like chaffinches, blackbirds, and black caps.

The negative impact of metals in polluted lakes on aquatic organisms may also adversely affect insectivorous birds on land. This is the conclusion of a dissertation from the Industrial Doctoral School ...

The world's insectivorous birds consume annually 400 to 500 million tons of prey and thereby use as much energy as the megacity New York. This is demonstrated by zoologists in the journal The Science ...

The most commonly used pesticides in the world have been a disaster for bees. But new research shows they’re also bad news for birds, which are dying at an alarming rate. The findings, published in ...

A class of pesticides linked to colony collapse disorder in bee colonies has now been linked to a dramatic decline in insectivorous bird populations. Disturbingly, this could also mean that other ...

An agricultural insecticide suspected of being behind the collapse of bee colonies in all parts of the world is apparently also triggering a fall in bird populations, a study indicates. The pesticides ...

Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other anthropods per year. These numbers have been calculated in a study ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To assess the impact of habitat fragmentation on tropical avian communities, we sampled lowland forest birds on six land-bridge islands and ...

We examined the indirect effects of insectivorous birds on plant growth through consumption of leaf-chewing insects in a Missouri Ozark deciduous forest. Over a period of 2 yr, we compared insect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. A recently published study by an international group of ...