Bird behavior influenced by humanactivity during COVID-19 lockdowns SciReports
Scientific Reports"Our findings suggest that some birds may have been able to use more spaces in cities because our human footprint was a little lighter," said Sanderfoot, who completed the study as a doctoral researcher in the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and is now a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles.nor canopy cover had an effect on their site use.
In the spring of 2020, Sanderfoot and colleagues recruited more than 900 community scientists in the Pacific Northwest to participate in the study. Thechose their own monitoring sites—mostly backyards and parks where they could safely comply with public health orders—and recorded the birds they observed over a 10-minute period at least once a week.
Among the 35 species that showed the strongest changes in behavior were some of the Pacific Northwest's most iconic, including black-capped chickadees, great blue herons, downy woodpeckers and Wilson's warblers. The researchers focused on 46 bird species overall, which were observed by the study volunteers during more than 6,000 individual surveys.
In order to compare the volunteers' bird observations to human activity, Sanderfoot and her colleagues used data from Google's Community Mobility Reports, which track the relative amount that people moved around at various points during the pandemic. While most people spent spring of 2020 isolated in their homes, many began venturing out again over the course of the study period.A house finch feeds its fledgling.
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