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| Red-shouldered Hawk during the Great Backyard Bird Count (my photo) |
- Birds like Bald Eagles and American Coots are dying from ingesting bacteria that live on invasive Hydrilla.
- Another study finds that ecotourism brings economic benefits, in this case birders looking for rare gulls and migrating hawks in Lake County, Illinois.
- American Avocets depend heavily on wetlands in the Intermountain West such as the Great Salt Lake.
- Great Tits on territory sing at different rates than their neighbors.
- Dozens of birds were killed during a test of the new Crescent Dunes Solar Project in Nevada. Like Ivanpah, the Crescent Dunes project is a concentrating solar plant. The plant's owners claim to have found a way to prevent future deaths, but it will bear monitoring.
- A second Golden Eagle was killed at a wind project in Nevada.
- Great Horned Owls have already started nesting.
- Data from Project FeederWatch revealed 38 common species whose winter ranges have shifted north by about 7km per year.
- Scientists in Australia are studying how well the birds there tolerate warmer temperatures.
- A project at Glasgow University aims to resolve why urban European Robins sing at night.
- Penguins lack taste receptors other than those for salty and sour flavors.
- Cooper's Hawks have at times been despised because they prey on songbirds.
- ABA Blog: 2015 AOU Check-list Proposals, Part 2
- Arthropod Ecology: Under the influence: how insecticides affect jumping spider personalities (Part 2)
- Tetrapod Zoology: Inside the Cassowary’s Casque
- Mercenary Ornithology: How to name a bird - or - what color is ‘rufous’ anyhow?
- Birding Dude: Banded Ring-billed Gulls B1XK and BMJM
- Project SNOWstorm: Updates Galore
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Pintail Snipe’s tongue and bill
- Penelopedia: Why I'm a Birder: Loving the Places They've Brought Me
- Laelaps: Sciencespeak: Fossorial
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Why Do Luna Moths Have Such Absurdly Long Tails?
- Barack Obama designated three new national monuments this week: the Pullman historic district in Chicago, the Honouliuli Internment Camp in Hawaii, and the upper Arkansas River Valley in Colorado.
- Last weekend an oil train derailed and exploded in West Virginia. So far it is unclear whether oil spilled into the Kanawha River.
- A different oil train derailed in Ontario.
- Springtails are among the most common and diverse life forms on Earth.
- Natural history collections remain important even though institutional support for them has declined.
- Grizzly Bears are emerging earlier than usual from their dens in the Yellowstone area because of a mild winter.
- The snowpack in the Olympic Mountains in Washington is at a record low.
- Kootenay National Park in British Columbia holds clues to the early stages of arthropod evolution.
