Bin Chickens and the Art of Moving In

For The Attentive Naturalist on Substack, I wrote about urban-dwelling ibis in Australia and Florida. Sydney’s “bin chicken” rebuilt its diet, nerve, and breeding calendar to live off landfills. Florida’s white ibis did the same around golf courses and theme parks. A related species tried an identical trick in the Everglades and was eradicated. Urban colonization runs on the same rules; the outcome depends on which side of the border you started. The the full article, for free, here https://substack.com/home/post/p-216523957