Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI), a nonprofit ecological research group based in Portland, Maine, conducts innovative wildlife science worldwide.
BRI’s Center for Mercury Studies plays a lead scientific role in understanding the exposure and effects of mercury on wildlife in New England, North America, and around the world. The Center for Waterbird Studies is dedicated to assessing current and emerging threats to waterbirds. The programs in our Center for Ecology and Conservation Research aim to understand the workings of wildlife and their habitats while exploring how ecological stressors affect different species and ecosystems.
BRI's researchers are available to talk to journalists and provide expert information on both their work and the broader topics of their expertise.
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Deborah McKew, Communications Director
BRI research on Blackpoll Warbler migration was recently published in the journal, Ecology. The article, A boreal songbird's 20,000 km migration across North America and the Atlantic Ocean, describes how researchers used geolocators to document migration routes and stopover sites of the small songbird. Researchers found that breeding populations from as far as western Alaska make the long cross-continental flight, stopping on the Atlantic coast before journeying over the Atlantic Ocean to over-winter in South America.
The article can be found at the publisher's website, here.
