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Blue Jay (photo by me)
Birds and birding news
- National Geographic has an article on feather evolution.
- Scientists are attempting to eradicate rats from the Galapagos Islands to protect endemic birds and other native species. The rats were introduced to the islands by European visitors.
- The new Crossley ID Guide will include the four-letter abbreviations used by bird banders to record bird species.
- In an interview, an ornithologist discusses the impacts that climate change could have on mountain-dwelling birds.
- Invasive boa constrictors are a severe threat to endemic island birds.
- This weekend is the Big Garden Birdwatch in the UK.
- Edward Tenner: The Tech That Transformed Birdwatching Into a Bloodless Sport
- Fotoportmann: Cleopatra's Falcons: Central Park, NYC
- 10,000 Birds: Wikipedia and the Birds
- 10,000 Birds: USDA Blackbird Management
- Sibley Guides: Can Old World and New World Great Egrets be distinguished by call?
- ABA Blog: Boors, Birds, and Bad Behavior
- Audubon Guides: Sanctuary
- John Rakestraw: Second cycle gulls
- Tails of Birding: Airy Castles and Brain Windmills
- Earbirding: Splitting Mountain Chickadee
- Towheeblog: White White-crowned
- On the road: The undescribed song of the Green-breasted Mountain-gem
- View from the Cape: A Cold Winter Raptor Survey
- Fishers (a type of weasel) have moved back into the Albany area.
- The Coffee & Conservation blog has updates about the effects of climate change on coffee.
- A record number of gray whales have been migrating along California's coast this year.
- With the federal government unlikely to make significant progress on climate change in the near future, states are taking the initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Biologists are exploring whether eastern oysters could be used to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
- Wild Muse: Africa's new, old gray wolf
