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Sleeping Whimbrel / Photo by Ingrid Taylar
Bird and birding news
- The US Fish and Wildlife Service is objecting to a 180-foot cell phone tower in Duluth, Minnesota, because of possible hazards to migratory birds. Over 25,000 birds per day pass the site during peak migration periods.
- Scientists are testing new tracking tags on macaroni penguins at the Leicestershire Zoo. If the test is successful, the tags will be used to track penguins in Antarctica.
- Some gulls in Gloucester Harbor have appeared oiled, but the source of the oil is still unknown. Fish oil from herring boats is one possibility.
- Sixty birds turned up dead at Oyster Bay in California due to wildlife hazing at Oakland airport. Some of the wounded birds are being treated at IBRRC.
- The oldest known captive mallard recently died at the age of 22.
- This was a bad year for Common Cuckoos.
- Flying in goose-like V formations could be one way for airplanes to reduce their fuel use and carbon footprint.
- Here is a profile of eagle rehabilitators in western Pennsylvania.
- Conservation Maven: Conceding extinction: a look at rare birds
- Prairie Ice: BBC on a new band for penguins
- burdr: Hawk Stuck In Train Plow For Over 1000 Miles
- Sainsbury, a British wine retailer, is switching to all natural corks to preserve important cork oak forest habitat for the Iberian lynx and other threatened species.
- A land purchase added 27 acres to the Great Swamp NWR in New Jersey. The wooded tract was formerly a private hunting lodge.
- A new management plan may prevent the killing of endangered Mexican gray wolves for livestock depredation.
- A new website called Climate Wizard makes large amounts of climate data accessible to the public.
- The French Constitutional Council struck down the country's proposed carbon tax because it contained too many loopholes.
- RealClimate compares climate predictions from 10 and 20 years ago against subsequent climate data and finds that the models hold up quite well.
