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- Federal officials are recommending that the Ivanpah solar installation be shut down during peak migratory periods to reduce the number of birds killed at the plant.
- Here is another article on why the Passenger Pigeon went extinct and what its extinction means today.
- In locations with more diverse predators, birds tend to have shorter lifespans.
- River pollutants like PCBs affect the development of European Dippers.
- Here are some suggestions for feeding hummingbirds and making sure they don't get sick from the feeders.
- Boreal birds like the Gray Jay and Rusty Blackbird are declining in the Adirondacks.
- Flocks of starlings change directions like a fluid, but when they run into an obstacle they break up like a solid.
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: The Bird That Cries Wolf Changes Its Lies
- The Corvid Blog: Australian Crows - Guest Post by Matthew Brown!
- ABA Blog: 2014 AOU Check-list Proposals, Part 2
- Bug Eric: Fossorial Mason Wasps, genus Pterocheilus
- All About Birds: Not just starlings and pigeons: cities harbor 20% of world's bird species
- Wild New Jersey: Don's Jersey Birding: Milkweed in Every Yard
- The Green Miles: Even in MA, Coastal Towns Completely Unprepared for Sea Level Rise
- South Jersey Butterfly B/Log: April is the coolest month!
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Hodgson’s Frogmouth - appearance and parenting
- 10,000 Birds: We Can’t All Be Whiskey Jacks - Meditations on a Bad Bird Name
- In toxic spills news, this week featured CSX derailments in Lynchburg, Virginia, which featured an explosion and oil spilling into the James River, and in Bowie, Maryland, which spilled coal.
- The stranding of a dead and bloating Blue Whale on a beach in Newfoundland prompted speculation about whether it would explode. See one article on exploding whales of the past, one on why a whale might explode, and this site for updates.
- Researchers have developed a way to produce 3d insect images and then print them.
- The Supreme Court upheld the EPA's new rules on smog from coal plants.
- Reducing energy use means asking the right questions.
- Lyme-infected ticks are becoming more common in Canada.