/newsroom/taxonomy/term/923/all en /newsroom/david-bird Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:23:49 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288228 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/montreal-gazette-american-kestrel-free-fall-and-no-one-knows-why-303807 <p>“It’s like a big black hole — we have no idea why they’re declining,” said <strong>David Bird</strong>, professor emeritus of wildlife biology at �������� and a former bird columnist for the Montreal Gazette, who created and ran the university’s prolific breeding colony. “We saw after a while that they were breeding well, but the youngsters weren’t coming back. They weren’t surviving. What’s particularly interesting is that the story of the kestrel is happening to other bird species.”</p> Mon, 06 Jan 2020 14:47:40 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 194878 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/atlas-obscura-why-drones-are-counting-thousands-decoy-ducks-285271 <p>Conducting a bird census by foot can also be disruptive, David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at ��������, told Popular Science. “While you’re doing that, you’re disturbing the hell out of the birds,” Bird said.<br /> <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drones-counting-birds">Atlas Obscura</a></p> Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:46:38 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32997 at /newsroom