Welcome back to a new season of the The Bird Brief! This is Stephanie Jenkins Aslett, avian ecologist, giving you the rundown on the most recent happenings in birds, both in popular news and published research throughout the world. Today we have cover everything from birds that crave tropical cyclones to the effects of drug trafficking on birds and how birds can see wind turbines better. Let's get started.

Stories:
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-cocaine-trafficking-threatens-critical-bird.html and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01365-z

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/desertas-petrels-chase-hurricanes and https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00806-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982224008066%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/13/urban-birds-are-teeming-with-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-study-finds

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/oregon-researchers-painting-wind-turbine-blades-to-cut-bird-deaths/

Bird Sound:
Golden-winged Warbler. Todd Wilson, XC103849. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/103849.
Golden-cheeked Warbler. Phoenix Birder, XC573860. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/573860.
Philadelphia Vireo. Andrew Spencer, XC189441. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/189441.
Desertas Petrel. Ben Metzger, XC508037. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/508037. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
American Crow. Thomas Magarian, XC524205. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/524205.
Mallard. Martin Billard, XC881155. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/881155.
Swainson’s Hawk. Richard E. Webster, XC626069. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/626069.
White-tailed Eagle. Karl-Birger Strann, XC401923. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401923.

Music: The Weeknd from wish by Lundstroem is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/lundstroem/songs-i-regard-terrible/the-weeknd-from-wish/

This is Stephanie Jenkins Aslett, thanks for listening. If a particular story piqued your interest, be sure to check out the show notes for more details. If you have a story that you would like to spread the awareness of, I would love to highlight it in my podcast. Just let me know in the comments or send a note to thebirdbrief@gmail.com. Please tune in next time for The Bird Brief - your rundown, or should I say featherdown, of the birds we love.