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| Piping Plover and Chicks / Photo by Kaiti Titherington/USFWS |
- The Tricolored Blackbird population in California has fallen by 44% since 2011.
- Acacia seeds somehow traveled from Hawai'i to Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean; the most likely explanation is that a bird carried them there.
- Scientists are using feathers collected at clay lick sites to track the movements of the Scarlet Macaw population.
- A California Condor was spotted in San Mateo County, California, for the first time in over a century.
- A camera trap at Yasuni in Ecuador captured the first video of a Nocturnal Curassow.
- Caterpillars that eat multiple plant species are more susceptible to being eaten by birds than ones that specialize in a single host plant.
- DNA analysis showed how King Penguins settled on Crozet Islands.
- A black fly outbreak caused 70% of loons in northern Wisconsin to abandon their nests. The same insects have plagued efforts to establish an eastern migratory Whooping Crane population.
- Laura's Birding Blog: Update on My Little Chickadee
- Charismatic Minifauna: Tequila, Booze, and Bats
- ABA Blog: Climate Change and Migratory Birds: New Concerns for an Old Problem
- Bug Eric: Eyed Elaters
- The Birdchaser: Neotropical Cormorant
- Shorebird Science: Death from Above
- Rob's Idaho Perspective: My Project of the Year – The Northern Goshawk
- This week was National Pollinator Week. Here are some resources for helping pollinators from the USDA-NRCS. As always, the Xerces Society has plant lists and other recommendations for each region within the U.S. and Canada.
- Nature photographers need to be aware of their potential impact on wildlife and ecosystems.
- Spiders that catch fish are present on every continent except Antarctica. Some fish they catch may be much larger than themselves.
- Obama has proposed a major expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument around several islands the U.S. controls in the Pacific Ocean.
- The City Room blog at the NY Times covers the life history of tent caterpillars.
- New Jersey has several old-growth forests around the state.
- Last week, Illinois became the first state to ban microbeads.
