Global traffic noise reduced up to 70% – a lot of people noticed bird song, in even huge cities like San Francisco. Birds living in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge were even heard since traffic was at its lowest levels since 1950s – researchers even detected new notes in the white-crowned sparrow’s song! During the pandemic, the urban birds’... See more

increasingly we’re seeing wildlife managers, veterinarians, and other biologists trying to treat wild animals more like we would treat domestic pets or livestock. There’s more discussion of supplementary feeding during cold winters or after bushfires, more discussion of parasitism, of whether we should intervene to save animals if they’re drowning... See more