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| Snowy Owl at Siletz Bay NWR in Oregon / Photo by Roy W. Lowe (USFWS) |
- A pair of endangered Short-tailed Albatrosses has produced a chick for the second year in a row at Midway.
- Songbirds that prey on caterpillars focus their hunting on certain types of trees, like cherry trees, that are most nutritious for the caterpillars.
- A new study finds that Archaeopteryx had black wing feathers.
- The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch is happening this weekend, January 28-29. If you live in the U.K. (or will be visiting), please contribute to this citizen science project. Here is a gallery of some birds featured in the count.
- Starlings have a contradictory image: they are often unwelcome at birdfeeders (and are invasive in North America), but people are thrilled to see their massive murmurations near roosting sites.
- Scientists have found new concentration and breeding areas for the threatened Japanese Murrelet.
- A Blackbird is not a black bird when it has a case of leucism.
- Jason Berry set a new big year record for Washington, DC, with 218 species in 2011.
- Laelaps: New Jersey’s Turnpike Croc
- Compound Eye: Real-life SpiderMan: Thomas Shahan
- Observations: Jumping Spiders Use Blurry Vision to Catch Quick Prey with Precision [Video]
- BESG: Brahminy Kite altercation with House Crow
- Outside My Window: Winter Trees: White Oak
- Round Robin: Sharpen Your Skills and Help Train Merlin™
- The Birdist: Are Birds Dislocated By Global Warming "Countable"?
- 10,000 Birds: Birding On The Cheap: Rio Grande Valley
- Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds: Winter Tour Part II: Ocean Shores Cripplers and Even Snowy Owls Need To Vomit
- The Freiday Bird Blog: Rare and Hurt and, What Do Birds Mean to You?
- Nemesis Bird: Townsend’s Warbler in PA!
- On the road: eBirding Honduras
- The USDA issued an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This new map reflects warming due to climate change.
- Barack Obama addressed 8 environmental issues in the State of the Union address; all were energy-related and none addressed wildlife conservation directly.
- Mountain yellow-legged frogs of the Sierra Nevada may be classed as endangered since their population has fallen 90% due to the spread of a chytrid fungus.
- A rainforest survey in southern Suriname found 46 new species and 1,300 species overall. The overall species total included 215 species of birds. The newly-discovered species included one new frog, eight new freshwater fish, and many insects. Here is a gallery of some of the new species.
- A British woman crossed Antarctica on skis.
- During early stages of BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration pressured government scientists to underestimate the flow rate from the broken wellhead.
- A federal judge ruled that Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, was not responsible for some civil compensatory claims but would have to pay fines and punitive damages.
- The biggest trees in the world are already on the decline and face further challenges from climate change.
- Despite greater environmental awareness and regulations, 87 species of marine mammals have been eaten in 114 countries over the past two decades. In fact, consumption of meat from marine mammals has been on the rise since the 1970s.
- Restored wetlands are rarely as good as original wetlands at harboring biodiversity and sequestering carbon. This finding supports the need to protect original wetlands wherever possible.
- The Obama administration issued a new forest management plan that it says will rely to a greater extent on science and collaboration with outside conservation groups.
