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Down the hatch / Photo by Gavan Watson Bird and birding news
- Long, showy tails on male birds in the tropics do not inhibit their movement or threaten their survival. Experiments showed that male Anna's Hummingbirds used only slightly more energy with artificial streamers attached than in their normal state.
- The BBC has a video of whales eating fish corralled by seabirds for their own food.
- A survey of some Spoon-billed Sandpiper wintering grounds found one new winter site in Myanmar and the loss of some winter sites in Vietnam. This shorebird species continues to feel tremendous pressure from development.
- Tree removal along the Pajaro River in California has encouraged Yellow Warblers to nest in areas where cowbirds can find their nests more easily.
- BirdLife has published a field guide to Syrian birds in Arabic.
- The News Journal investigates the return date of common Delaware birds.
- The National Park Service plans to eliminate the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle from national parks by 2010 to protect condors and other animals that are susceptible to lead poisoning.
- A tennis center in Texas removed trees around its tennis courts to prevent grackles from congregating there.
- Recently-discovered fossils show that some ornithiscian dinosaurs were covered with feather-like bristles.
- Scientists have found evidence of female antbirds singing over their mates' songs to prevent them from pairing with another female antbird.
- The Drinking Bird: Duck Stamps, the Department of the Interior and us
- Photo Naturalist: How to get a perfect exposure of an albino Red-tailed Hawk in flight
- Read more about last week's bird-blogging adventure via Carrie's follow-up and Patrick's illustrated post.
- Five countries that border the Arctic Ocean have declared that the polar bear is in danger of extinction due to climate change.
- Rising water levels induced by climate change are already imposing significant costs on towns and resorts that border the Chesapeake Bay. The problems are made worse by natural land subsidence along the mid-Atlantic coastal plain.
- Rapid sea level rise in the mid-Atlantic (almost twice as fast here as elsewhere in the country) will also threaten major coastal cities like New York.
- The wilderness protection bill recently passed by the Senate also contains language to build a road through Izembek NWR.
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