Intestinal contents of thrushes killed in window collisions reveal shifting gut microbiomes

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Source: Photo by Heather Skeen.

A study of bodies of migratory birds killed in window collisions over the years helps to uncover the relationship between birds and the microbes living in their guts—which appears to be wildly different from mammals and their microbiomes.

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