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Prairie Warbler / Photo by Steve Maslowski (USFWS)News and links about birds, birding, and the environment
- A study on why urban European robins sing at night found that they do so to avoid competing with daytime noise, not because they are tricked by nocturnal light pollution. (abstract)
- The Edmonton Journal has an account of a peregrine territorial battle. The two birds fought over the same nestbox after a long migration from Colombia.
- It has turned into a poor breeding season for endangered wood storks. There are no nests at Corkscrew Swamp, and few at any other locations surveyed.
- Because the Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically underfunded in recent years, our national wildlife refuges are operating on a budget of about half what they actually need.
- Cornell presents The Mystery of Junkin's Warbler (via Birdchaser)
- An unusually dense algae bloom in the Pacific has caused the deaths of hundreds of seabirds.
- Here is some background on the Pocosin Lakes refuge, near the proposed Navy airfield.
- A project is monitoring African birds in the Albertine Rift to study the effects of climate change on bird distribution.
- Survey teams are looking for rare endemic forest birds in the Alaka'i Wilderness Area on Kaua'i. Of particular concern are the 'akeke'e (Kaua'i 'akepa) and 'akikiki (Kaua'i creeper), which have been missing from their documented habitats.
- Invasive Species Weblog: Corporate Response Ability
- The Gold Poppy: Stars in My Eyes
- The Green Miles: Some Great Earth Day Tips ... and the One They Leave Out
- Birding Mongolia: Important Bird Areas in Mongolia
- Words on Birds: Avian outcasts: Non-native species unloved
- Born Again Bird Watcher: Free Birdsong CDs (in England)
- Gristmill: Unrigging the Game (see also You Are What You Grow)
- City Birder: Preparing for Spring
- Friday Ark #136
- Tangled Bank #78
- Birds in the News #80
- Birds Etcetera: Known North American Bird Blogs #5
- The Voltage Gate: Bloggers BioBlitzing Across the Sphere
