http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 22 May 2013 21:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/23/campus-still-a-great-place-for-birds-despite-century-of-changes/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/23/campus-still-a-great-place-for-birds-despite-century-of-changes/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:33:25 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32277 The bird population on the Berkeley campus has remained surprisingly diverse over the past 100 years, showing that it’s possible to create a green wildlife haven within a dense urban area, researchers say.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/23/campus-still-a-great-place-for-birds-despite-century-of-changes/feed/ 0 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/w-hsi062811.php http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/w-hsi062811.php#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:32:03 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13894 The first large-scale study evaluating the safety of a bird-capture technique widely used in wildlife research finds that mist netting is largely safe. The study, led by UC Berkeley researchers, found that injury and mortality occurred in only a fraction of one percent among 620,997 captures. ]]> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/w-hsi062811.php/feed/ 0