The mountain quail population in the Sierra Nevada (USA) may have benefited from wildfires. Cornell University reports.
Mountain quail is a little-studied species that lives in hard-to-reach places. First of all, it prefers dense forest thickets and thickets, as well as steep cliffs. The authors of the new study used 1,636 offline recorders over an area of about 22,000 square kilometers to study this bird’s life.
First of all, scientists were surprised that mountain quail is much more common than previously thought. In addition, a statistical dependence was found: most of the birds were found in places where large wildfires have passed. First of all this was about past fires in the last 6-10 years but also for 1-35 years period.
The authors note that wildfires, which are becoming more frequent in the United States, are detrimental to many animal species, but mountain quails may apparently be an exception to this rule.