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| Long-billed Curlew / Photo by R. Baak/USFWS |
- The UK government is investigating offshore tanker discharges that have caused the deaths of many seabirds.
- The BBC has a photo gallery of migratory birds illegally killed in Malta.
- Climate change has disrupted the timing of the breeding season for Great Tits, but so far it has not affected their population size.
- A live webcam is monitoring a Bald Eagle nest in Southwest Washington, DC.
- About 10% of the world's bird species have been recorded breeding with another species.
- A photographer caught a series of photos of a Brown Booby catching flying fish in midair.
- A scientist at Binghamton University is trying to figure out how American Crows cope with stress.
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Crouching Bird, Hidden Dinosaur
- The Dragonfly Woman: My Aquatic Insect Photography Setup
- The US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to drop Gray Wolves from the Endangered Species List. While the wolf population in the Lower 48 has rebounded, it still faces grave threats, particularly from hunting, that threaten to undo the recovery.
- A new guide to the common ants of North America is now available. You can download it (for free!) from iTunes or as a pdf.
- A study by the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement found many weaknesses in the walls of man-made coal slurry ponds. The slurry is a toxic byproduct of mining.
- This spring Joshua Trees in the Mojave Desert are blooming unusually profusely. While there is some speculation that climate change or stress is the cause, profuse blooms have not historically been linked with drought or heat waves.
- The EPA criticized the State Department's environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL pipeline, particularly for its lack of attention to potential climate change impacts.
- Only 23 bats remain in an eastern Pennsylvania cave that used to be home to over 10,000 bats. The cave's population has been devastated by white nose syndrome.
