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Pileated Woodpecker / Photo by MNH Photography
Bird and birding news
- An osprey that hatched at Martha's Vineyard this summer is being tracked by satellite tag as it makes its way south. You can view its route at the link.
- Each autumn more than one million snow geese stop at Squaw Creek NWR in Missouri. (I am linking mainly for the photo.)
- A visitor from the United Kingdom praises the avifauna of Rock Creek Park in DC.
- The Bronx Zoo has added Loggerhead Shrike to its collection to support a captive breeding and reintroduction program.
- A photographic exhibit on Long Island features black and white portraits of owls and poultry.
- New Jersey plans to extend its snow goose hunting season as part of a program to reduce wintering snow geese along the Atlantic flyway by about half.
- Avian botulism has killed between 25,000 and 50,000 birds in the Great Salt Lake's marshes (classed as "a moderate year" for botulism).
- Washington state will not file charges against the officers who clubbed gulls to death in Seattle.
- Backyard birdbaths can be especially productive in dry seasons or dry climates.
- A Tufted Puffin appeared for the first time in the U.K., off the coast of Kent.
- Researchers have found a large colony of flamingos near Abu Dhabi.
- Net Results: How do we know what thrushes are eating?
- Coffee and Conservation: Know your coffee birds: Violet Sabrewing
- Susan Gets Native: Species Profile: Rough-legged Hawk
- BrdPics: Washed-out Wilson's Warbler
- Tails of Birding: Hawk Eyes
- Notes from soggy bottom: Why the Rush?
- Fat Finch: Undiscovered Bird Species
- Murmuring Trees: Northern Wheatear in DeKorte Park
- Shell was forced to halt some tar sands mining this week due to environmental protests.
- Danish researchers have mapped the changes in Greenland's ice sheet over the past 11,700 years. The map is based on evidence from ice cores.
- Arctic sea ice reached its third smallest extent this summer. Sea ice reach its summer minimum of 1.97 million square miles on September 12. Even so, the minimum was 20% below the 30-year average.
- Scientists have sequenced DNA barcodes for 25 hunted wildlife species to make it easier to enforce laws against illegal hunting.
- The Obama administration has agreed to a plan for operating federal hydropower dams along the Columbia River with improvements to salmon habitat on the north side of the river. If habitat improvements fail to help salmon sufficiently, the administration may breach dams on the Snake River.
- Global sea temperatures for August and for the summer overall were the highest since records started being kept in 1880.
