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Common Merganser / Photo by John and Karen HollingsworthNews and links about birds, birding, and the environment
- A new study suggests that avian flight evolved when birds learned to flap their wings at the correct angle.
- Delaware will retain its limit of 100,000 males on the horseshoe crab harvest.
- About 15,000 birds at the Great Salt Lake have died of avian cholera.
- A hunter in Mississippi shot a northern pintail that was banded in Japan. This was the first Japanese band recovered in the Mississippi Flyway.
- The French oil company Total received a €575 million fine for an oil spill in 1999 that affected 150,000 birds.
- The British government is exploring whether habitat can be replaced for the 65,000 birds that would be displaced by a Severm barrage.
- 10,000 Birds: Join the Nature Blog Network
- Search and Serendipity: Birdstack: World bird lists online for free
- Susan Gets Native: Species profile: Barred Owl
- Field of View: Birds of the Chukchi Sea
- Drawing the Motmot: Painting The Bird With Bling
