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David Bird
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Latest papers
Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals.
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census
Scientific Reports · 2017
Latest funding
- $161,000
Influence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers on avian reproductive function
NSERC · 2005 · Principal investigator
- $13,800
spermatogenesis and the fertilizing process in falconiformes
NSERC · 1995 · Principal investigator
- $12,000
Response of American kestrels to diazinon exposure: age-dependent toxicity, toxicokinetics and applications to field monitoring
NSERC · 1993 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals.
Oliver RY, Yanco SW, Ellis-Soto D, Jesmer BR, Cohen J, Gao S, Patchett R, Avgar T, Bildstein K, Bakner NW, Barber D, Barker K, Barnes JG, Bastille-Rousseau G, Belant JL, Benson JF, Bêty J, Beyer DE, Bird D, Bowersock N, Boyce AJ, Carlson BS, Casazza ML, Chamberlain MJ, Cherry MJ, Collier BA, Courtemanch A, Davidson SC, DeBloois D, DeNicola V, DeSorbo CR, Dowler RC, Dupont D, Elbroch LM, Elliott J, Evans BA, Ford WM, Hancock D, Hardesty-Moore M, Hawley JE, Jeffress MR, Jennings S, Kauffman MJ, Kays R, Kelly MJ, Kluever BM, Lamont M, LaPoint S, LaSharr TN, Lefebvre J, Legagneux P, Loretto MC, Lumpkin D, Martinez LA, Marzluff JM, McCauley D, McDuie F, Mong TW, Monteith KL, Mueller T, Newediuk L, Ortega AC, Ossi F, Overton C, Perkins JC, Petroelje TR, Prugh L, Sager-Fradkin KA, Seer M, Shawler AL, Skalos S, Smiley RA, Sommerfeld J, Stahler DR, Stephenson JA, Stevens RD, Svoboda NJ, Therrien JF, Thomas PJ, VanAcker M, Vander Wal E, Varland DE, Verzuh TL, Wagler BL, Warnock N, Webb SL, Williams CK, Wilmers CC, Wolfson DW, Young JK, Rutz C, Jetz W
Seabird species vary in behavioural response to drone census
Émile Brisson‐Curadeau, David M. Bird, Chantelle M. Burke, David A. Fifield, Paul W. Pace, Richard B. Sherley, Kyle H. Elliott
Influence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers on avian reproductive function
Principal investigators: Bird, David
spermatogenesis and the fertilizing process in falconiformes
Principal investigators: Bird, David
Response of American kestrels to diazinon exposure: age-dependent toxicity, toxicokinetics and applications to field monitoring
Principal investigators: Bird, David
Avian science and conservation centre: kestrel colony
Principal investigators: Bird, David
Reproductive strategies of falconiformes
Principal investigators: Bird, David
Reproductive biology of falconiformes
Principal investigators: Bird, David
MacDonald raptor research centre: kestrel colony
Principal investigators: Bird, David
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Eric Vander Wal and Tal Avgar: 6 shared papers
- Kyle Elliott and Joël Bêty: 2 shared papers
- Kyle Elliott and David Bird: 1 shared paper
- Joël Bêty and Eric Vander Wal: 1 shared paper
- Joël Bêty and Tal Avgar: 1 shared paper
- Joël Bêty and David Bird: 1 shared paper
- Eric Vander Wal and David Bird: 1 shared paper
- Tal Avgar and David Bird: 1 shared paper
- Department of Natural Resource Sciences
- Department of Biology
- Département de biologie, chimie et géographie
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