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- A mysterious substance is coating seabirds in San Francisco Bay. Rescued birds are being cleaned and treated by International Bird Rescue.
- Last year, Virginia's Peregrine Falcons produced 44 chicks from 27 breeding pairs. This continues a growing population trend since the population crashed in the 1960s. (via)
- A study found that age matters more than experience in determining Peregrine Falcons' breeding success.
- Last year, 200 Bald Eagles hatched in New Jersey.
- For the first time, a gamekeeper in Britain is serving a prison sentence for killing raptors.
- Scientists are learning more about the movements of Bearded Vultures with satellite telemetry.
- Pigeons bob their heads as they walk to see a clearer picture of their surroundings.
- A Black-backed Woodpecker is a rare visitor to Massachusetts.
- 10,000 Birds: On the threshold of flight
- ABA Blog: An Interview with Dorian Anderson, pedal-powered Big Year champ
- The Speckled Hatchback: Post #2 - Kelp gull and some psychology of bird chasing/listing
- Extinction Countdown: Venus Flytraps Risk Extinction in the Wild at the Hands of Poachers
- Birding the day away !!: Grey-Headed Gull ~ Bisceglie, Italy - 18.01.15
- Lyman Entomological Museum: Who’s that fly and WHAT is it eating? A new paper from the lab
- Charismatic Minifauna: How Flies Fly
- Laelaps: Science Word of the Day: Ornithogenic
- Lawyers, Guns & Money: Environmental Policy History Reading List
- Last year was the hottest year on record.
- NOAA keeps having to rescale its ocean temperature charts to account for rising temperatures.
- Stingless bees in Australia wage wars to capture hives rather than building their own.
- Compared to introduced species, native plants are limited less by climate than by dispersal patterns.
- A question of increasing importance is whether climate change should trump wildlife and ecosystem conservation.
- A pipeline spilled 50,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana.
- New Jersey's Supreme Court ruled that towns can rezone land for conservation purposes.
