With the arrival of spring, I am again working on documenting breeding birds for our state breeding bird atlas. In my highly urban county, it seems reasonable that House Sparrow, European Starling, and Rock Pigeon are nesting in every quarter-township…
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The other day I posted on reporting neck-collared Canada Geese. Since then, I’ve come across another group of geese near home, of which ten had collars. Remarkably (or not, site fidelity is one thing we learn from these types of…
Belle Isle Park, Detroit New York’s Central Park was not the only magnificent city park designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead. The largest city-owned park in America, Detroit’s own Belle Isle, was also an Olmstead work. Located in the Detroit River…
Legions of tiny black and white birds are moving south from Canada in droves. Consider these reports (keyed on the map): Banders in Toronto, at Tommy Thompson Park along Lake Ontario (A on map), band over 200 of these birds…
I’m not easily grossed out, but I figure that it’s probably best if human waste is not discussed on public blogs, at least those that are not dedicated to some sort of medical topic. And for sure photographs of human…
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Urban Ecology Resources
Books
- Novel Ecosystems
- Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast, 2nd Ed.
- Field Guide to Urban Wildlife
- Road Ecology
- The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation
- Where Do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species
- Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
- Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City
- Restoring Disturbed Landscapes: Putting Principles into Practice
- Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting
- Wild Urban Woodlands: New Perspectives for Urban Forestry
- Nature All Around Us: A Guide to Urban Ecology
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Literature
- Urban Naturalist (journal; I’m on editorial board)
- Endangered by Sprawl (report)
- Ibis special issue: Birds and Recreational Disturbance (open access)
- Anthropocene Magazine
- Urban Ecosystems (journal)
- Journal of Urban Ecology
Research Groups and Centers
- Urban Wildlands Group
- Urban Wildlife Working Group
- Hixon Center for Urban Ecology (Yale)
- NSF urban Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Centers:
- ---Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER
- ---Minneapolis-St. Paul LTER
- ---Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER
- Anthroecology Lab (University of Maryland)
- Urban Ecology Research Laboratory (University of Washington)
- Anthropocene Working Group
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