"With our new #method that allowed #studying #animal #personality in the #wild, we found that #redknots develop their #personality probably through the #experience that they get when #growing up," says #Ersoy. "After growing up, #adults stick with #exploratory #behaviors. They seem to be like #character types in #humans."

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-adventurous-bird-personalities-population-cope.html

In recent decades, #overfishing has decimated the horseshoe crab population at Delaware Bay, leading to a sharp decrease in red knots, which are now listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. Under the current management program, horseshoe crabs have not recovered, and red knots have continued to decline. Rather than taking steps to reverse this trend, Addendum VIII would open the door to resuming the harvest of female horseshoe crabs, further imperiling red knots and potentially violating the Endangered Species Act.

Please join the good people at #EarthJustice to ask the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to protect #RedKnots by protecting #HorseshoeCrabs.

https://earthjustice.org/action/habitat-destruction-is-making-this-small-birds-journey-harder