Researchers find lockdowns create global appetite for feeding feathered friends

A team of researchers have highlighted the role that the COVID-19 pandemic played in connecting people around the world more with our feathered friends while in lockdowns, finding a surge in interest for bird feeding information and providing more insight into global human-birds interactions. The findings “COVID-related surge in global wild bird feeding: Implications for biodiversity and human-nature interaction,” have been published in PLOS ONE.