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| Greater Sage-Grouse / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- The Minnesota Vikings new stadium will feature extensive glass walls, which will surely kill thousands of migratory birds. Here is a petition urging the team to use bird-safe materials.
- Western states and energy companies are trying to implement conservation practices that would keep the Greater Sage-Grouse off the Endangered Species List. Even those might not be enough to stop the decline of the species without further limits on land use.
- Audubon Magazine has an interview with Dorian Anderson, the birder who is cycling and birding across the country to raise money for conservation. You can follow his big year at Biking for Birds.
- Another article in the same issue covers Neil Hayward's record-breaking big year in 2013.
- Sea ducks have been unusually abundant along the southeastern coast of the US this summer.
- Researchers have created a map of Wood Thrush migration by use of geolocators strapped to the birds' backs. One unexpected result was that the thrushes that breed the furthest north migrated the furthest south.
- Hybrid Swainson's Thrushes seem to choose more difficult migration routes.
- Colombian conservation groups have created a new cloud forest reserve in the Serranía de Perijá mountains, which has received little conservation attention compared to other areas of the country. The new conservation area is home to several endemic species, including some that were only recently discovered.
- Here are some ideas for identifying brown, streaky fledglings in late summer.
- Ashy Storm-Petrels are breeding at California's Santa Catalina Island.
- Bioacoustic recordings are more effective than field observers for detecting some elusive species like the endangered European Nightjar.
- Here is a photo gallery of birds of the southwestern US.
- 10,000 Birds: Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird
- 10,000 Birds: The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Marsh Discovery Trail Update
- Anything Larus: Accidental Versus Deliberate Feather Replacement
- The Birdist: Put A Bird On It. Any Bird.
- Charismatic Minifauna: They’re Here: Massive Mayfly Emergence in Wisconsin
- Birding Adventures: Who Says What? Vocalizations of the Cordilleran Flycatcher
- Extinction Countdown: Wild Births are Big Steps for Rare California Condors and Mexican Wolves
- ABA Blog: How Many Species of White-breasted Nuthatches?
- Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.: On Warranting Caution: Angles and Lighting
- Birding Dude: Eurasian Collared-Dove Arrives in New York City
- Laelaps: Fluffy Dinosaur Raises Questions About the Origin of Dinofuzz
- Earbirding.com: How to Identify a Timberline Sparrow
- The Corvid Blog: Regarding Tool Manufacture and New Caledonian Crows
- National Moth Week continues this week and runs through Sunday. Here is a NY Times article on moths and moth week.
- Documents from Pennsylvania's DEP show that oil and gas operations contaminated drinking water supplies 209 times since 2007.
- California's response to the drought has been complicated by water rights and delays in carrying out basic conservation measures.
- A new study looks at how climate change will affect malaria rates.
- California is building another big desert solar plant.
- With rapid declines and extinctions across many animal species, it might be time to introduce the term "defaunation" to combine those trends together.
