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| Barred Owl / Photo by Ray Bosch (USFWS) |
- The US Fish and Wildlife Service is designating more old-growth forest as critical habitat for the threatened Northern Spotted Owl but will also allow some logging in owl habitat east of the Cascades. The management plan also calls for killing Barred Owls in Northern Spotted Owl to remove the rival species.
- Pale Male's mate, Ginger Lima, died this week in Central Park. As far as I know, the cause of her death has yet to be determined (despite the speculation in the linked post).
- An injured Bald Eagle trapped inside Metro's Blue Line in Alexandria was rescued by wildlife rehabilitators who rode a special Metro train to the bird's location.
- The parrot colony on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco has grown so large that it developed a satellite colony in one of San Francisco's suburbs.
- This year's Snowy Owl irruption continues to impress. A Snowy Owl has appeared in Dallas for the first time since the 1950s.
- Scientists studying wolves in Isle Royale National Park have recorded interactions between wolves and ravens at moose carcasses.
- A new conservation area in Colombia will protect habitat for the endangered Gold-ringed Tanager.
- A Junin Rail – a very rare and elusive species – was found and photographed near a lake in Peru.
- Sibley Guides: Introduction to breast feathers
- The Birdist: Interview with Waterfowl Breeder Rosemary Miner aka Hey, Is That Your Smew?
- March of the Fossil Penguins: Introducing Kairuku!
- Bug Girl's Blog: Book Review: The Gentle Subversive
- Bug Eric: Wasp Wednesday: Not Wasp VII
- Outside My Window: Winter Trees: Ailanthus
- Nemesis Bird: Broad-tailed Hummingbird – New Jersey’s First State Record!
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Beetle pest destroys coffee plants with a gene stolen from bacteria
- Coffee & Conservation: Know your coffee birds: Malabar Barbet
- Enviroblog: Concerned about Drilling in New York? So are scientists.
- Ars technica: Ocean acidification on track to be among the worst of the last 300 million years
- Laelaps: Honey, I Shrunk the Coyote
- Earbirding: Identifying Black-capped Gnatcatchers
- The Birdchaser: Picking Out Cackling Goose
- State and federal officials in New Jersey are buying upland areas adjacent to existing refuges in Cape May to give salt marshes room to move as sea levels rise.
- Deer Ticks (and with them, Lyme disease) tend to be more prevalent in areas with a lot of invasive Japanese Barberry, so controlling Japanese Barberry may be a way to reduce Lyme disease infection rates.
- The thickest parts of the Arctic sea ice cap – multi-year ice – are melting away faster than the thinner parts.
- David Roberts argues that funders of environmental causes need to fund more grassroots organizations instead of just funding national ones.
- A study on the endangered leatherback turtle's migration routes identified some areas where conservation measures may be needed.
- A new study finds that water scarcity affects about 2.7 billion people worldwide for at least part of each year.
- A bill passed the House of Representatives to undo the 2009 San Joaquin River Restoration Agreement in California.
- Scientists rediscovered a large stick insect that had been presumed extinct on an island near Australia.
- Climate change could make it too dangerous to climb Mount Everest.
- Via Bug Girl, here is a lovely ebook on native bees (pdf).
