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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Got to get me some beavers… 😉
Cheers, Klaus
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.