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- Bar-headed Geese are able to conserve energy while migrating over the Himalayas by keeping close to the terrain and flying at night when the air is colder and denser.
- Migratory shorebird levels have declined in Asia largely thanks to coastal development.
- Hoopoes paint their eggs with bacteria from their uropygial glands to protect the embryos from infection.
- Here are some suggestions for standardizing point counts.
- "Green" big years offer an alternative to traditional ones and reduce the environmental impacts of birding.
- There are elevated numbers of seabirds dying along the Pacific coast.
- There is ongoing controversy over whether Liberty State Park in New Jersey will be opened to further commercial development. The management of the site is of some significance to birders since it is one of the better birding hotspots in the northeast corner of the state.
- 10,000 Birds: Four groups of Neotropical birds that may challenge your ID Skills
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: How Big Are The Biggest Squid, Whales, Sharks, Jellyfish?
- Deep Sea News: Sleuthing the Largest Snail
- Laelaps: How Extinction Changed the Coyote
- Extinction Countdown: Mexican Wolves Finally Get Endangered Species Status
- Backyard and Beyond: Creeper
- The City Birder: The 2014 Shorebirds of Plum Beach
- Golden Gate Birder: Rare sparrows visit the Bay Area
- The Science of Birds: A Return To Discovery
- A new study found that cattle testing is a more effective measure for controlling bovine TB than culling badgers.
- There is further evidence that emerald ash borers are attacking white fringetrees in addition to ash trees.
- Planting native rather than exotic milkweeds is better for helping Monarch butterflies. Here are some suggestions for milkweeds native to California.
- Bills moving through the New Jersey legislature would expand beaver hunting and allow more hunting on Sundays.
- A survey conducted in the first few days of January found hundreds of flower species blooming in Great Britain.
