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| Osprey / Photo by Matt Poole/USFWS |
- This winter has caused high mortality for waterfowl, particularly Red-breasted Mergansers, in the Great Lakes.
- Here are some photos from Machias Seal Island, one of the prime spots to see an active Atlantic Puffin colony.
- Climate change bodes ill for the Magellanic Penguin colonies on Magdalena Island.
- Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon came about partly because of misunderstandings about its ecology.
- DNA evidence suggests that humans hunted moa to extinction.
- Chicken DNA provides one way to track the migration of humans across the Pacific.
- Seabirds are indicator species for climate change and other environmental ills.
- Tawny Owls are in decline, which seems to be linked to changes in the vole population.
- A Tawny Owl survived a 300-mile train trip, stuck to the locomotive.
- The word "jinx" is derived from an old bird name.
- Audubon Magazine had a list of green birds for St. Patrick's Day. Sadly, only one of them normally occurs in Ireland.
- Bird Ecology Study Group: How much do we know about our Eurasian Tree-sparrow?
- 10,000 Birds: Being a Birder
- Expiscor: What is a naturalist?
- Compound Eye: Photographing Uncooperative Insects: The Time-Out Trick
- Nemesis Bird: The Rallidae rock!
- Tetrapod Zoology: Controversies from the world of ratite and tinamou evolution (part I)
- Culturing Science: Warming Gives Us One More Month of Flowers in the Rockies
- All About Birds: When Will Yellow Warblers Return? Check Our Animated Map
- Extinction Countdown: Kakapo Baby Boom in New Zealand: First New Chicks in 3 Years
- Inkfish: Scientists Ask Why There Are So Many Freaking Huge Ants
- Anything Larus: Review of the Gull Section to Sibley's Guide to Birds (2nd Edition)
- Brooklyn Parrots: Treacherous NY Winter Fails to Dislodge Wild Parrots From Brooklyn
- CREATE Arctic Science: The 2014 North American Cold Wave and the Polar Vortex
- According to new calculations, the Earth will cross the climate danger threshold around 2036.
- This winter was neither the coldest nor snowiest in New Jersey's meteorological history. However, as a measure of how much the climate has warmed, it was the 3rd coldest in the last 30 years.
- As the Arctic tundra warms, it releases more carbon than plants can soak up.
- A pilot running experimental flights over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill found a new way to estimate the composition and flow rate of spills.
- The Narwhal's tusk is filled with nerves, which may help it detect the salinity of water.
- Paleontologists discovered another feathered dinosaur, but not one on the avian lineage.
- New Jersey rejected plans for an offshore wind farm near Atlantic City.
- Scientists revived moss that had been frozen in permafrost for 1,500 years.
- Earthworms are invasive species, with impacts on native insects and birds.
- Oregon may stop tracking wolf OR-7.
- An entomologist discovered 19 new species of mantids in the course of revising the Liturgusa genus. Mantids in this genus are unusual in relying as much on speed as camouflage in evading predators.
- The proliferation of invasive species (like the iceplant in California) should serve as a warming about environmental engineering having unintended consequences.
- The New Jersey Senate is moving a new bill to pay for open space funding, this time out of corporate taxes instead of sales taxes.
- Coastal erosion and climate change are threatening archaeological sites on the Alaskan coast (and on coasts elsewhere too).
