To build on his zebra finch study and to expand it to a wild bird species, Dr Slevin chose the Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, as his study organism. Cardinals are common garden birds in ...
This research provides the first detailed insights into how gut microbiomes influence traits related to fitness in wild birds, addressing a gap in knowledge previously focused on captive animals.
Using a common backyard bird, the Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), a new study provides the first-ever description of how a wild bird's microbiome relates to its ornamentation and body ...
But for the world’s wild birds, the prospect of a deadly, uncontained outbreak is not theoretical. The virus has already decimated avian populations around the globe, with body counts that can ...