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| Mallard / Photo by Tom Koerner (USFWS) |
- Tricolored Blackbirds now have temporary endangered species protection in California for the next six months while the state reviews a petition to grant protection on a permanent basis.
- New Caledonian Crows show a preference for using tools with the left or right sides of the beaks, which seems to be related to their vision.
- A Great Horned Owl was filmed swimming in Lake Michigan after it was forced down by Peregrine Falcons. The owl made it to shore and rested on the beach before flying away.
- A new bird species, the Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo, was discovered in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Like other recent finds, it appears to be rare and endangered.
- Northern Cardinals and Gray Catbirds live longer in urban settings than elsewhere.
- Stress early in life leads to faster aging in European Starlings.
- Recent nocturnal surveys documented a much larger population than expected of the endangered Anjouan Scops Owl.
- Cory's Shearwater can pass immunities to their chicks for several years after being vaccinated.
- A predator-proof fence at Kilauea Point NWR will protect endangered native birds.
- Some endangered kiwi populations may face problems from inbreeding.
- One writer is thankful for the conservation program for the Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
- Sibley Guides: The extremely variable American Pipit
- Anything Larus: Banded Juvenile California Gull
- Outside My Window: The Link Between Hemlocks And Birds
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Scientists Instil New Cultural Traditions in Wild Tits
- The Bruce Mactavish Newfoundland Birding Blog: Snowy Owl Echo Invasion - Here We Go Again
- Birding Is Fun!: Immature Herons
- ABA Blog: 2015 AOU Check-list Proposals, Part 1
- 10,000 Birds: Save the Painted Bunting, y’all: Keep wonder alive
- Hidden New Jersey: What in sand-hill? Cranes make Somerset a habit
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Our New Column: Birds to Look For
- Extinction Countdown: As Sea Ice Disappears, Arctic Ringed Seals Could Get Largest Critical Habitat Ever
- The Rattling Crow: Gritting greylag geese
- Laelaps: Snotworms For Dinner
- Illuminating Fossils: Red-feathered dinosaurs?
- Understanding climate change means thinking in terms of systems rather than details.
- Cities are having trouble figuring out what to do with so many dead and dying ash trees and how to replace them.
- Alley Pond Park in Queens has a weather station and webcams to record climate data. It is hoped that the station will also become a launching point for citizen science projects involving local schools.
- Killing wolves leads to more livestock depredations, so the best solution is to manage wolves with nonlethal means.
- The Bhopal disaster occurred 30 years ago this week.
- Logging destablizes the carbon sequestered in forest soils.
- Ants clean up urban refuse fairly efficiently.
- Now that New Jersey's open space amendment passed, the next question is how to divide the money.
