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Northern Shrike / Photo by B.J. McCaffery (USFWS)Bird and birding news
- The wild Whooping Crane population at Aransas NWR stands at 270 individuals, a new winter high.
- The Raptor Center in Minnesota has been treating more snowy owls this winter, along with many other raptors. Apparently this year's invasion is not due to a food shortage, since there are plenty of lemmings up north. (via)
- In other winter irruption news, the Northern Hawk-Owl in Peru, NY, is drawing a lot of visitors.
- The National Park Service is working on a new management plan to protect Piping Plovers at Cape Hatteras National Seashore from off-road vehicles.
- Here is something one does not often see on a bird count: a Northern Shrike took the head off a grosbeak while counters watched.
- Scientists found a new population of the critically-endangered Honduran Emerald.
- The Boston Globe explains why birds can sit on an electric fence.
- Our local newspaper, the Home News Tribune, covered the Dismal Swamp portion of the Raritan Estuary CBC.
- Rob's Idaho Perspective: Endangered Species Act 35th Anniversary
- Nightjar: To List or Not to List: But what program?
- Meadowlands Blog: Photographing Owls
- City Birder: Predator as Prey
- Susan Gets Native: Species Profile: Osprey
- Birdstack: Birds of the Solstice: December 2008
- WildBird: Birding and yoga
- The species composition of temperate lake algae has changed over the past two centuries, probably due to climate change.
- Climate change is likely to change groundwater supplies more drastically than it will change rainfall totals.
- Gristmill: Mean, old, and dirty (on the Capitol Power Plant)
