Beavers: Dam Good for Songbirds

By Corey 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

Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy 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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