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| White-tailed Ptarmigan / Photo by Peter Plage / USFWS |
- Nine Hawaiian Crow chicks hatched at the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center on Hawaii; the world population of this species is now up to 114 crows. Hawaiian Crows are extinct in the wild, but a captive breeding program seeks to re-establish a wild population.
- Thirteen birds newly recognized as distinct species based on older specimens are already extinct.
- Magpies do not steal shiny objects; in fact, they are afraid of shiny things.
- There have been large discrepancies in the avian mortality figures reported for the Ivanpah solar plant. Here is a way to understand where they come from.
- A Bronx resident created a bird sanctuary in a city lot that has become a city park.
- The recovery plan for endangered salmon in Oregon calls for killing some of the cormorant colony at the mouth of the Columbia River.
- First-winter songbirds tend to return north later than adults of the same species.
- Ospreys have produced a pair of chicks in Cumbria, England, for the first time in 150 years.
- A Glossy Ibis pair is attempting to nest in the U.K. for the first time.
- Tetrapod Zoology: More passerines as seen from the peripheries (part III): Great tits!
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Purple Swamphen preening
- Mark Avery: Four Bee-eater chicks fledge on Isle of Wight
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Birds Lost Their Sweet Tooth, Hummingbirds Got Theirs Back
- Bug Eric: Wasp Mantisfly
- Nemesis Bird: Alcids of the Olympic Peninsula by Alex Lamoreaux
- Beetles In The Bush: Stag and "stagette" beetle
- Outside My Window: Love This Blue
- Inkfish: How Humans Are Helping Ravens and Hurting Hawks
- Selective logging in Indian forests continues to affect the frogs that live there.
- Loss of groundwater in western North America is causing the ground to lift upward, especially in California.
- Cultivars of native plants do not always provide the same benefits as native plants, but some might.
- Bats that die at wind turbines in Germany tend to be long-distance migrants and prefer to fly on nights without strong winds.
- Here is an interview with an artist who is captivated by seaweed.
