Campus grasslands grow environmental solutions
August 26, 2024
August 26, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 26 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Santi Tabares Erices '25 peered through binoculars on a sunny morning in late May, hoping for an increasingly rare sight: a grassland bird nesting in a dew-covered hayfield.
As grassland bird populations decline, he and other Cornell researchers are testing whether birds such as Eastern meadowlarks and bobolinks that nest in grasslands produce more fledglings when hayfields are mowed later t . . .
Santi Tabares Erices '25 peered through binoculars on a sunny morning in late May, hoping for an increasingly rare sight: a grassland bird nesting in a dew-covered hayfield.
As grassland bird populations decline, he and other Cornell researchers are testing whether birds such as Eastern meadowlarks and bobolinks that nest in grasslands produce more fledglings when hayfields are mowed later t . . .