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| Yellow-rumped Warbler / photo by me |
- An amendment to a bill under consideration in the House of Representatives would weaken protections under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
- The recordings from Flight Calls of Migratory Birds by Evans and O'Brien are now available online.
- A Corn Crake appeared on a highway median on Long Island this week and was seen by many birders over a few days. Unfortunately, the bird was found dead yesterday after it was hit by a car. Its body will be preserved as a specimen at the American Museum of Natural History.
- Over 400 Whooping Cranes are expected to winter at Aransas NWR this winter, and it seems conditions for them will be favorable.
- Reintroduction programs are starting to teach captive-bred birds to recognize natural predators, but finding the right strategy is tricky.
- Scientists studying hybridization among Yellow-rumped Warblers found the genes that make an Audubon's Warbler's throat yellow.
- Lesser Prairie-Chickens face new threats from wind energy development in addition to other forms of habitat loss.
- Most birds have monogamous pairs, but a handful of species have other arrangements.
- A study food that cockatoos can match shapes when using tools.
- methods.blog: Sticking Together or Drifting Apart? Quantifying the Strength of Migratory Connectivity
- Avian Hybrids: Throwback Thursday: Six Years with a Brewster’s Warbler.
- Mark Avery: Bitterns up, Corncrakes down
- Backyard and Beyond: After the Woodcock Storm
- Feathered Photography: Five Image Series Of A Rousing Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Linda Murdock Photography: Three Trips to Crab Road
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Purple Swamphen – Feeding behaviour, shoots
- Climate Law Blog: Scott Pruitt’s Attack on Scientists Serving on Advisory Boards Is Illegal
- Conservationists attempted to capture a few endangered Vaquitas for a captive-breeding program, but all the individuals they captured died. Less than 30 Vaquitas are left in the wild.
- The Fourth National Climate Assessment was released last Friday at the end of the day. The report contradicts much of the Trump administration's positions on the causes and likely severity of climate change. The second part of the report found that many predicted impacts are already happening.
- A satellite built to monitor ice loss in the Arctic was destroyed instead of launched into orbit.
- This year is likely to be the third-warmest on record. That would mean that the last three years would be the three warmest on record.
- Milkweed patches in farmland have 3.5 times the number of Monarch eggs as milkweed patches in natural areas, gardens, and roadsides, and smaller patches are preferred to larger ones.
- A driver in British Columbia watched a Cougar take down and kill and Mule Deer.
- Clear-cutting in the boreal forest is undermining Canada's attempts to reduce its carbon emissions.
- A warm and dry summer at Mount Rainier gave a glimpse of how future alpine plant communities might respond to climate change.
- A new tunnel deep below Connecticut is intended to reduce sewage overflows after rainstorms.
- La Niña conditions are expected to last through the winter.
