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Glenda Simmons
How Does Drought Affect Eastern Bluebirds?
Climate models are predicting drier conditions and more persistent droughts in North America. Thanks to contributions from NestWatchers, scientists were recently able to conduct the first range-wide analysis on the effects of drought on Eastern Bluebird breeding success.
Time Traveling House Finches
A study spanning a century of House Finch data suggests that as California’s springs get warmer, the birds are laying eggs earlier in the season. Read on to learn how researchers used our nest records to uncover the historic lives of House Finches.
Monitor Nest Boxes? Take Our Survey!
If you monitor nest boxes, please take our survey to help us understand the impacts of invasive species of birds on native nesting birds.
Predator Guards Carry Their Weight
It took just four years to answer the decades-old question of “Are predator guards on nest boxes actually helpful?” With the power of citizen science, NestWatchers helped us use the best science available in a national study of cavity-nesting birds.