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- The recent spending bill cut funding for protecting sage-grouse.
- A study of Golden-winged Warblers documented an instance of storm avoidance when the warblers fled their breeding grounds in advance of tornadoes.
- A study in the U.K. found that most seabirds avoid offshore wind turbines. Northern Gannets avoid the cluster of turbines completely while gulls fly through the area while avoiding collisions.
- Take the Parade of Plumage challenge based on 18th century bird illustrations to win prizes.
- A birder was kidnapped and held for two years in the Philippines; when he escaped he posted about a rare bird he saw.
- The Prairie Ecologist: Contrasting Approaches to Prairie Management: Leopold, Land Health and Cabbages.
- Mark Avery: Murderous - but not so bad after all?
- Bird Ecology Study Group: The Oriental Pied Hornbill and the Changeable Lizard
- mocosocobirds: The eBird Hotspot Primer, Dec. 2014
- Laelaps: Using Penguins to Study Prehistory
- Tetrapod Zoology: Confrontational behaviour and bipedality in deer
Environment and biodiversity
- An oil tanker collision is creating a potential environmental disaster in the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh.
- States in the Southwest are taking steps to reduce the amount of water they draw from the Colorado River, but it remains unclear whether it will mitigate years of drought and overuse.
- Climate change may be most apparent in the Arctic.
- Obama has protected Bristol Bay, an ecologically sensitive region of Alaska, from future mining projects.
- Trees are not responding to increased atmospheric carbon by growing faster, as many climate change models assume.
- A Greenpeace publicity stunt damaged part of the Nazca archaeological site.
- The Delaware Water Gap NRA will gain 350 acres as mitigation for a transmission line that will cut through the park.
- Americans are mostly unaware of the health effects of climate change.
