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| California Condors in flight above Bitter Creek NWR in California / Photo by Scott Flaherty (USFWS) |
- European researchers have found that the warming climate has slowed migration. In Finland, waterfowl are migrating up to a month later than they did 30 years ago. Researchers in the U.K. found that many migrants are not flying as far south as they used to.
- A few conservation websites featured Mexico's lesser-known turkey, the Ocellated Turkey in honor of Thanksgiving week. Here is one from Mongabay.com and another from the American Bird Conservancy.
- LiveScience interviews the scientist who discovered that Anna's Hummingbirds chirp with their tail feathers rather than their mouths during courtship display flights.
- A study finds that European Starlings learn patterns of food availability quickly but have trouble recognizing a slightly different pattern.
- Conservationists are trying to discourage Oregon residents from feeding pelicans along the coast.
- Despite conservation efforts populations of the endangered Florida Scrub-Jay have fallen by 25% in managed areas and up to 35-40% in the rest of Florida.
- Living Alongside Wildlife: This Thanksgiving, Don’t be a Hog (Nosed Snake)
- Laelaps: Alabama’s Wealth of Fossil Dinosaur Feathers
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Microraptor – the four-winged dinosaur that ate birds
- Bourbon, Bastards and Birds: Secret Hooded Merganser Courtship Grounds
- Tails of Birding: Owl - Omen of Evil
- ABA Blog: I Don't Know
- Coyote Crossing: Energy waste as seen by the International Space Station
- Coffee and Conservation: Know your coffee birds: Scarlet Tanager
- A study on ecotourism found no detrimental effect from ecotourism on wild mammal populations and suggested that ecotourism could help conservation by providing an economic incentive to preserve areas along rivers, which tend to be under pressure from human settlements.
- A federal appeals court restored Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park.
- The American Museum of Natural History discovered 11 new sweat bee species, including five from New York City and its suburbs, which are published in the journal Zootaxa. The five New York bees are Lasioglossum gotham, found at the New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanical garden; L. ascheri, from Westchester and Suffolk counties; L. katherinae, from Brooklyn and Nassau County; L. rozeni, from Suffolk County; and L. georgeickworti, from Queens and Nassau and Suffolk counties.
- A newly-discovered orchid from Papua New Guinea is the only species of orchid known to flower only at night.
