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| Rufous Hummingbird / Photo by Roy W. Lowe (USFWS) |
- A study found that climate change is negatively affecting the breeding of Adélie and Chinstrap Penguins but boosting that of Gentoo Penguins.
- Nightingale males sing more aggressively when responding to male birds in trees of the same height.
- It is well established that noise pollution has affects on bird behavior. A new study found that noise pollution also affects plants because birds and other animals play key roles in plant reproduction. If a bird visits noisy sites more often, plants that depend on that bird species will benefit, while plants will suffer if the birds they depend on avoid noisy areas.
- One of the British cuckoos tagged with a satellite transmitter last year has gone missing since its last transmission in Cameroon a month ago.
- A summary of this year's Great Backyard Bird Count results can be found on the GBBC website.
- This weekend is San Juan Capistrano's festival to celebrate the return of swallows.
- Tetrapod Zoology: Petrels: some form-function ‘rules’, and pattern and pigmentation (petrels part III)
- Extinction Countdown: Blue-Tailed Skink Declared Extinct in Hawaii
- National Moth Week: So You Want To Photograph Moths?
- Net Results: Early Neotropical migrants (?)
- Safari Ecology: Distribution of Ethiopian Bush-crow and the nature of explanations
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Meet the man who is scanning the Amazon by plane
- Laelaps: I’m an Ape, and I’m Also a Fish
- PetaPixel: Deer Strolls by Oblivious Photographer
- A growing coyote population in New York City may help to reduce the city's overpopulation of rodents and raccoons, through predation and competition.
- The Florida Urban Forestry Council gives some reasons why planting and maintaining urban trees is a good idea.
- Climate Desk is a joint effort by multiple media outlets to gather the latest news about climate change.
- A new analysis of temperature data found that 2010, and not 1998, was the warmest year on record.
- Speaking of climate change, this week was ridiculously warm for anyone living in the midwestern or northeastern U.S. So many records were broken in the heat wave that NOAA's servers were overloaded.
- Montana has agreed to allow wild bison to roam across an additional 75,000 acres north of Yellowstone National Park.
- Cap-and-trade programs with modest targets tend not to spur innovation but instead meet their targets at lower cost than anticipated.
- Yesterday was World Water Day. Here is a fact sheet on the earth's water cycle.
- You can now explore the Amazon with Google Street View.
- The Emerald Ash Borer has officially arrived in the Philadelphia region, as at least 20 ash trees in Bucks County were found to be infested with the invasive and destructive beetles.
- Thanks to climate change, invasive Mountain Pine Beetles are able to produce two generations per year instead of just one.
- While most of the Monarchs that migrate north each spring are born along the way, 10% of the individuals that reach the northernmost portions of the species's range migrate all the way from Mexico.
- Some conservationists wonder if the need to conserve species (and protect their locations) should take precedence over announcing the discovery of new species publicly.
