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| Wilson's Warbler / Photo credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- EBird has an article on distinguishing Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers.
- A new federal regulation requires the use of streamers in long-line fishing to protect Short-tailed Albatrosses in West Coast waters.
- This year's State of the Birds report was released this week.
- These maps explore how birds' ranges will change in response to climate change.
- Like other birds, hummingbirds lost the usual taste receptors for sugar, but then they repurposed other taste receptors to regain the taste.
- In other hummingbird-related research, a species of Impatiens has a twist in the base of the flower that ensures that hummingbirds transfer pollen from one flower to another.
- Several recent articles identify threats to Common Loons nesting in the Adirondack region.
- Some Old World vultures watch eagles to find potential carcass locations.
- Anything Larus: Ring-billeds Preying on Migrating Passerines on Southern Lake Michigan
- BirdWatching: eBird maps show widespread fall movement of Wilson’s Snipe
- Birding New Jersey!: A New Jersey Birder’s California Junco
- 10,000 Birds: Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific
- Inkfish: Elderly Seabirds Dive Just as Well as Young Ones
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Oriental Pied Hornbill nesting
- Tetrapod Zoology: Footless urbanite pigeons
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Rhino Beetle Weapons Match Their Fighting Styles
- Climate change is killing forests in the Rocky Mountains; in 50 years, there may be little habitat for aspens or lodgepole pines in Colorado.
- Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose at a faster rate last year.
- We have insects to thank for many of the plant-based foods that we eat.
- Here are some suggestions for citizen science participation, some of which are specific to West Coast residents and some of which are more general.
