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Common Raven / Photo by Hernan Vargas
Birds and birding news
- The BBC has a gallery of oil-covered Rockhopper Penguins being rehabilitated in Tristan da Cunha.
- Scientists are trying to develop a chemical complement to dispersants to prevent oil from sticking to birds' feathers in the first place.
- The annual Big Garden Birdwatch reported an increase in the number of small birds reported, with particularly noticeable rises in the populations of Goldcrests and Long-tailed Tits.
- Conservationists are trying to eradicate rats from the Galapagos to protect native birds.
- The oldest known breeding female Osprey has returned to its nest in the U.K. The bird has nested at the Loch of the Lowes reserve for 21 years.
- A recent study found that Capercaillie breeding success declined from 1991 to 2009, and the decline may be linked to changes in weather conditions and increased predation.
- Sibley Guides: Distinguishing Green-winged and Common Teal
- Seabrooke Leckie: Done in by a sapsucker
- ABA Blog: New eBird data entry tools nearly here: we need your help!
- Tails of Birding: Anhinga - a Weird Bird
- March of the Fossil Penguins: Penguin Rescue Work Continues
- ABA Blog: A Bird of Hope; a Mystery Solved
- On the road: Sandy Hook March: the count so far
- President Obama called for cutting oil imports by one-third by 2025 by increasing domestic production, shifting to other forms of energy (primarily natural gas, biofuels, and nuclear power), and increasing fuel efficiency standards.
- Meanwhile, a British bank warns that there may be only 50 years of oil left.
- Warmer waters offshore paradoxically make winters colder in eastern North America and eastern Asia.
- The deaths of marine mammals during last summer's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were probably underestimated.
- Coral reefs appear to be moving northward in response to warmer ocean temperatures.
- Invasive wasps in New Zealand carry ants away from food instead of fighting them.
- Coyote Crossing: Environmentalism without the environment: Madrigal in The Atlantic
