Dayer, who said her own mother is very committed to bird feeding, is the lead author of an article recently published in People and Nature. Its aim: to find the positive human effects of bird feeding.

This small act can mean the world to a mother bird, allowing her to continue feeding and caring for her baby in a safe ...

For the care and feeding of its offspring ... a retired photo editor who’s an avid wildlife photographer, observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives.

Great Gray Owls prefer conifer forests and have the usual diet of owls, subsisting on small rodents like mice, lemmings, chipmunks, and voles. They hunt night and day, and they have excellent hearing ...