A Baby Bird’s Wishlist: Mild Weather, Attentive Parents, Not Being the Smallest Sibling (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

A Baby Bird’s Wishlist: Mild Weather, Attentive Parents, Not Being the Smallest Sibling

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UC Davis graduate student Sage Madden examines a black phoebe chick as part of her research on how temperature extremes and urbanization affect developing birds, building on findings that climate change can shape survival from the earliest days of life.

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Ian Haliburton

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