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| Loggerhead Shrike / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Twelve endangered Mascarene Petrels were photographed near Réunion Island recently — the most detailed study of their behavior to date. One individual had a bump on its abdomen that might indicate the presence of an egg.
- The Guardian notes a contrast in the environmental outlook for the new football stadiums in San Francisco and Minnesota.
- Climate studies is assisted by the efforts of amateurs who record data on the distribution and phenology of numerous organisms, especially birds.
- Migratory birds typically take a faster pace in the spring than in the fall.
- Tomorrow, September 6, is World Shorebirds Day; check the link for ways to participate.
- Charismatic Minifauna: Have the Vikings built a Thunderdome for Migratory Birds?
- PhotoNaturalist: Micro Fauna for Mega Fun
- The Birder's Library: Remembering the Passenger Pigeon
- Biodiversity in Focus: Of pigeons, extinction, and lice
- Southern Fried Science: Sharks aren’t always the top of the food chain
- North Coast Diaries: Green Birding
- View from the Cape: Mixed success for beach nesting birds
- 10,000 Birds: Europe’s Brown Warblers: a map through the maze
- Outside My Window: Swift Migration
- Beetles In The Bush: One-shot Wednesday: swamp milkweed leaf beetle
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Insights To Blue-winged Pittas Part 5
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Even More about that Banded Sandpiper
- SpiderBytes: Tetragnatha revisited: dinner and romance at sunset
- ABA Blog: ABA Checklist Committee adds Common Redstart to ABA Checklist
- This week marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. Here is an interactive graphic showing the designation of wilderness areas from 1964 to the present. The significance of wilderness preservation may have a link to the other anniversary this week, the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. As climate change and a biodiversity crisis loom, federal agencies are increasingly faced with the question of how much to intervene to prevent extirpations in wilderness areas.
- Here is an interview with the head of the National Park Service on the future of wilderness.
- A federal judge ruled this week that BP deserved most of the blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
- Drought maps show that California's weather went from normal to dire in just three years.
- New research ties the polar vortex irregularities such as North America experienced this past winter to climate change.
- Orcas continue to decline in Puget Sound.
