Subject: [Tweeters] TWO birdie stories: one about social distancing, the other about invasive species
Date: Thu May 21 00:51:43 PDT 2020
From: Devorah the Ornithologist - birdologist at gmail.com

Hello everyone,

I've got two birdie stories to share with you today. The first covers an
eBird/Cornell Lab of O study about the effects of social distancing on the
numbers of bird observers who reported their observations during the
"global Big Day" that was held on 9 May 2020. (For those who are not
familiar with the global big day, this is a celebration of international
migratory bird day.)

You can read more about this good news here:

Social Distancing Makes For Global 'Big Day' Bird Watching Records
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2020/05/16/social-distancing-makes-for-global-big-day-bird-watching-records/
tiny: https://tinyurl.com/y87m2yvp

The other piece covers a research paper about invasive species and how
their relationships to native species can "make or break" their ability to
establish themselves in a foreign place. In this study, the researchers
investigated monk parakeets living in the Madrid metropolitan area, and
found that their relationship to native white storks is helping them move
out of the city and into the countryside. The study suggests that native
predators (raptors in this case) could be the one factor that prevents the
spread of at least some invasive species into rural areas.

Feral Parakeets Nest With Storks To Avoid Predators
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2020/05/20/feral-parakeets-nest-with-storks-to-avoid-predators/
tiny: https://tinyurl.com/ya4bae3c

As always, I hope you enjoy these pieces and that you share them widely
amongst your fellow bird watchers, friends, family and on social media
(facebook, etc.) and on that online megaphone, twitter. Don't forget that
all of my stories -- whether they are about birds or not, are reformatted
and republished on my Medium site (URL below in sig file) at least one week
after they've appeared on Forbes.

thank you for reading.

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