{"id":9082,"date":"2019-07-15T16:28:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2020-08-31T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:24:25","slug":"news-press-now-study-aims-to-make-mwsu-more-bird-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/15\/news-press-now-study-aims-to-make-mwsu-more-bird-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Study aims to make MWSU more bird-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><span id=\"author-popup-0f2b7d6c-38ca-11e6-9433-b76253964178-asset-ca7fbbe2-a3e7-11e9-87cc-a3afb4bc6634\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover150078\">By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW, <\/span>Jul 11, 2019 <span class=\"text-muted\">Updated\u00a0<\/span>Jul 11, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Across 750 acres of campus, a few students at Missouri Western spend some of their summer mornings visiting more than 60 bird-nesting boxes in order to gather data and further their research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>It\u2019s all part of Dr. Julie Jedlicka\u2019s ornithology research study, which has her and her students examining various avians and their young to create a more bird-friendly campus. Along with duck and owl boxes \u2014 which were actively used for the first time this year \u2014 purple martin boxes also are featured on campus, complete with predator guards and sometimes pulley systems to keep them higher off the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cI use this as active learning with my students in ornithology in the spring \u2026 and I carry that on into summer research with students so that they\u2019re able to collect data, analyze it and understand how we can make bird-friendly society and merge conservation with human landscapes right here in St. Joe,\u201d Jedlicka said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/study-aims-to-make-mwsu-more-bird-friendly\/article_ca7fbbe2-a3e7-11e9-87cc-a3afb4bc6634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW, Jul 11, 2019 Updated\u00a0Jul 11, 2019 Across 750 acres of campus, a few students at Missouri Western spend some of their summer mornings visiting more than 60 bird-nesting boxes in order to gather data and further their research. It\u2019s all part of Dr. Julie Jedlicka\u2019s ornithology research study, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9798,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}