![]() ![]() Over the last thirteen years he and his graduate students at the University of Washington have studied what happens to birds, mammals, and other wildlife when forests around Seattle and other cities are transformed into residential neighborhoods. Central Park was “birdier” than Yellowstone! Traveling to New York City afterward, he spent several hours over two days in Manhattan’s green space, Central Park. ![]() As he always does when out of doors, Marzluff counted the birds he found there: twenty-four species. In March 2013 John Marzluff, a veteran ecology professor, spent a few days in Yellowstone National Park. A great horned owl, nearly two feet tall, whose presence in John Marzluff’s Seattle suburb ‘directly benefits our garden by keeping the nonnative eastern cottontail rabbits on edge’ ![]()
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