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- This year's winter finch forecast has been posted. The forecast focuses on Ontario but is relevant to birders elsewhere in Canada and the northern United States. Many irruptive finches will stay north this winter, but it should be a good year for seeing Purple Finches, Pine Siskins, and Common Redpolls.
- A lawsuit alleges that federal agencies did not follow the relevant laws in approving a wind project in San Diego County, California. The main concern is for a declining population of Golden Eagles that nest near the site.
- Thousands of horseshoe crabs will be released into the Delaware Bay as part of a program to restore migratory shorebird populations.
- Captive-raised Whooping Cranes are being released into the wild in Wisconsin.
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper is probably the best-known case, but many migratory shorebirds are in sharp decline along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
- A reintroduction for Scarlet Macaws in Mexico has been successful so far, with a high survival rate among the reintroduced macaws.
- Conservationists are trying to remove invasive species from an important nesting site in Long Island Sound.
- Here is a site with photos of the warblers found in Pennsylvania.
- Birding Dude: Could the need to obtain a photo get in the way of Birding?
- Extinction Countdown: This Massive Squirrel Has Been Saved from Extinction
- Earbirding: Bohemian Rhapsody
- 10,000 Birds: Bald Eagle Catching and Eating a Blue-winged Teal
- Anything Larus: Banded 2nd Cycle American Herring
- ABA Blog: Football Stadiums and Migrating Birds, Two Approaches
- Here are some tips for effective comment during environmental review processes.
- Australia's current government has undone much of the environmental progress enacted by previous administrations.
- Natural gas will do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to the claims of its boosters.
- After a recent rainfall, mushrooms were found sprouting in the desert in California.
- A draft plan designates public lands in the California desert that may be used for renewable energy development.
- Scientists are still figuring out how Monarchs navigate their long migration route despite going through multiple generations on both the flight north and the flight south.
- This summer the eastern lobe of the Aral Sea dried out completely for the first time. The Aral Sea has steadily shrunk since its main tributaries were diverted for irrigation in the 1950s and 1960s.
