Beavers: Dam Good for Songbirds

By October 10, 2008 2 comments

The marshy ecosystems that beavers help create are good for songbirds.  At least, that is the conclusion of a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society published in the October issue of Western North American Naturalist.  “The study found that the more dams beavers build, the more abundant and diverse local songbirds become.”


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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Beavers: Dam Good for Songbirds”

  1. Got to get me some beavers… ;)
    Cheers, Klaus

  2. Well, duh, as they say.
    Some of my favorite birding memories involve beaver: night hikes punctuated by the rather unsettling sound of rodent teeth meeting cottonwood bark, an Eastern Phoebe hunting from a beaver dam on a snowy mid-winter day in northern New Jersey. They’re great animals, and I shudder to think how close we came to losing them.

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