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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- There's still time to comment on the proposal for a new maintenance building at Sandy Hook. This article and this article explain why birders ought to oppose it. See also these talking points from Monmouth County Audubon. Comments must be submitted by October 22.
- NJ Audubon's eBird portal recently reposted some articles on birding in New Jersey, including how to find a Barn Owl and an introduction to birding Glenhurst Meadows.
- Here is a suggestion for recording more accurate birding distances in eBird.
- Some conservationists want the Tricolored Blackbird classified as endangered in California.
- Birds deal with turbulence by adjusting their wings.
- A fossil bird egg was found in Brazil.
- Some people are trying to return wild Northern Bobwhites to South Jersey.
- North Coast Diaries: Goosey, goosey gander
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Tiger Shrike’s feeding behaviour
- Bug Eric: Carpet Beetles, Genus Anthrenus
- Cicada Mania: 2015 Periodical Cicada Emergences
- BugBlog: October spiders
- Laelaps: Getting to the Root of Fur
- Tetrapod Zoology: Skinks skinks skinks (part I)
- There is some disagreement over whether the EPA's preferred solution to the Passaic River's pollution is the right approach.
- A site in New Mexico is releasing huge amounts of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere.
- Conservation groups are suing to list the wolverine as a threatened species. The main threat to the wolverine is climate change, which will limit breeding habitat for the species.
