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| Blackpoll Warbler / Photo credit: Donna Dewhurst (USFWS) |
- New York City Audubon is pushing building owners and architects to make their buildings safer for migratory birds. Several buildings have made successful modifications already, and some new buildings are incorporating bird-friendly elements into their designs.
- A new study argues that window strikes kill a lot of birds, but do not have an appreciable effect on overall bird populations because of a lack of correlation between a high number of window strikes and population decline.
- Feathers trapped in amber are giving palaeontologists a better idea of what feathers looked like in the Cretaceous period. The specimens, collected in Alberta, show a diversity of feather shapes and pigments. Not Exactly Rocket Science has a gallery of amber-coated feathers.
- Yesterday I posted on a tracked Whimbrel that was shot on Guadaloupe. It turns out that a second tracked Whimbrel was also shot there on the same day (pdf). BirdLife and other conservation organizations, including the Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds, are calling for better regulation of hunting in the Caribbean to avoid killing species of conservation concern.
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology and NASA are collaborating to use eBird data and satellite imagery to learn more about how birds use different land types over the course of the year.
- A scientist reports on his expedition to Papua New Guinea to study endemic birds.
- A network of scientists is studying the fall migration of Northern Saw-whet Owls.
- This year a record 154 Western Snowy Plover chicks have fledged along the coast of Oregon.
- View from the Cape: Darners: It's What's For Dinner
- Coyote Crossing: Chuckwalla Valley
- Anything Larus: Case of the Hidden Tertial
- Search and Serendipity: Magnificent Frigatebird plumages (Tropical Storm Lee Part 2)
- Compound Eye: Why are media insects misidentified?
- Myrmecos: Forest changes following a foreign ant invasion
- BugBlog: A bit of slug romance
- Picus Blog: Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk Redux
- The Ocean Portal: New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America
- BirdFellow: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Birds!
- 10,000 Birds: Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?
- eBird News: Understanding birds & weather: Fall birding basics
- EvoEcoLab: The Cost of Bearing Lanterns
- Per Square Mile: Salvaging disturbed forests may not save biodiversity
- Arctic sea ice reached its second-lowest minimum extent this summer, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The Skeptical Science blog explains why the numbers on the decline in sea ice may differ from one report to another.
- The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has created an interactive Google map of the best places in the state to watch wildlife. You can view the map here. It sounds like a great resource for travelers, and I hope other states follow Oregon's lead.
- Unchecked deer population growth is a conservation problem in the U.K. as well as in the U.S.
- A Republican scientist and a Democratic scientist co-authored an op-ed on the need for action on climate change.
- The new Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World contains numerous changes, many of which result from climate change.
- Mexico is planning to release five Mexican Gray Wolves in Sonora, close enough to the U.S. border that they could join other members of their subspecies in the U.S.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing the Franklin's Bumble Bee as endangered, though it may already be extinct since no bees of that species have been seen since 2006.
- An expedition recently visited Haiti to document the rare endemic reptile and amphibian species that live there before the last forest remnants are cleared.
- New York is trying to prevent the spread of Emerald Ash Borers within its borders by quarantining lumber from affected areas of the state.
