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| Tufted Titmouse / Photo credit: Bill Thompson/USFWS |
- Houston Audubon volunteers had catalogued about 140 oiled birds around Galveston Bay, as of earlier this week. Houston Audubon has been posting occasional updates on the spill.
- 20% of the Tricolored Blackbird population is under threat from an imminent harvest, and Audubon is trying to raise money to save them.
- The USFWS will list the Lesser Prairie-Chicken as threatened.
- Burrowing Owls are monogamous despite plenty of opportunities to stray.
- The USPS is introducing a line of stamps that will feature songbirds. Here is an interview with the stamps' illustrator.
- Britain may have its first nesting storks in 600 years.
- Southern Fried Science: Explainer: An end to Japan’s "scientific whaling" program in Antarctica
- Contemplative Mammoth: O Best Beloved: Just-so stories in ecology and evolution
- Expiscor: Ten facts about Pseudoscorpions
- Birding Is Fun!: The Statuesque Great Blue Heron
- Bug Eric: A Bed Bug Primer
- The Kitchn: 10 Edible Spring Weeds
- Bird Ecology Study Group: The St. Andrew’s Cross Spiders and birds
- Outside My Window: Red Rimmed Eyes
- Tails of Birding: Red-winged Blackbird
- The IPCC issued another grim report (pdf) on climate change this week. The effects of climate change are already happening and will worsen over time. Here are some of the dangers to wildlife. Some places are trying to adapt, but the report is also likely to be ignored by many policy makers.
- Also on the subject of climate change, a climate scientist responds to arguments that increasing disaster costs are unrelated to climate change.
- Bangladesh will be among the first to experience severe effects from climate change.
- As the baseball season opens, it is worth remembering that baseball bats made from ash are threatened by climate change and the emerald ash borer.
- A graduate student performed an experiment on himself to determine where is the worst place to be stung by a bee.
- Speaking of insect-related wounds, ticks will soon re-emerge, and Lyme disease is endemic throughout New Jersey.
- The NRCS is working with farmers to recommend forage plants for bees and encourage other bee-friendly practices.
- Here is an illustration of the snowpack problem California faces.
- Chicago is trying to figure out what to do with its petcoke problem.
- The cold winter and spring may lead to lots of flowers blooming at once.
- The search for MH 370 has been hampered by the large amount of trash floating in the search area.
- New Jersey will partner with the Arbor Day Foundation to replace some of the trees knocked down by Hurricane Sandy.
- Plants can change how they smell to attract or repel insects.
- Occasionally a controlled burn can turn into a flaming vortex.
