Posts
News and links about birds, birding, and the environment
- Birds may use grains of iron in their bills to guide long-distance flight. The iron, present in skin cells at the base of the bill, may act as a compass that helps the birds read the Earth's magnetic field.
- Lumber interests are suing to remove protections for endangered marbled murrelets in the Pacific Northwest.
- Rare northern bald ibises have returned to their breeding grounds in Syria.
- Male lance-tailed manakins pair up for aerial courtship dances, but only the dominant male gets to mate.
- Texas biologists are relocating captured wild turkeys across the state to study why turkeys do well in some areas but not others.
- A Canadian birder had the bad luck to watch two bald eagles shot with a rifle.
- Another bird shot with an arrow: this time a pelican.
- This past winter (December to February) was the warmest on record. A moderate El Nino effect was a major contributor.
- Liverpool is installing robotic falcons to drive away pigeons.
- We have two new birding blogs in the DC area: Betsy's Bird Journal and Fairfax Birding.
- RealClimate dissects some criticisms of An Incovenient Truth.
- We have a long way to go on CAFE standards, according to Coeruleus.
- I did not know that James Wolcott is a bird watcher.
- Laura Erickson is moving her writing to www.lauraerickson.com and a new temporary blog.
- Friday Ark #130
- Oekologie #3
- Tangled Bank #75
- Birds in the News #74
- Carnival of Maryland #2 (new local carnival)
