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| Northern Pintails / Photo by Tom Koerner (USFWS) |
- A Golden-winged Warbler was banded and fitted with a geolocator in Illinois and then recaptured in Nicaragua.
- Feral chickens on Kauai have a complex genetic history.
- A study suggests the presence of urban birds has economic value.
- Darwin's finches remain a prime example of how diverse species can arise from a common ancestor.
- Black Vultures (the Eurasian kind) have returned to southern Portugal.
- A new study gathered information on the life history of the Black Tinamou, one of the least-studied tinamous.
- A study of shorebirds that winter in South Africa found that some long-distance migrants had declined but that the declines were probably not due to local conditions.
- Collisions between birds and aircraft may be reduced by adjusting lights to meet birds' visual systems.
- A new terror bird fossil suggests that they had the ability to hear low-frequency sounds.
- Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.: A Shrike of Two Tails (***MEGA***)
- Extinction Countdown: Amazing Discovery: Nearly Extinct Bird Found Breeding in Japan
- 10,000 Birds: Pine Warbler in Forest Park, Queens, New York
- Anything Larus: Adult Kumlien's: Hammond
- Bug Eric: Springtime Tiger Beetles
- The Artful Amoeba: Wonderful Things: The Amazing Mimicry of the Mummy Berry Fungus
- Arthropod Ecology: What to do with a spider in your fruit
- Greg Laden: Bully for Brontosaurus
- A study found that US protected land does less than it should to protect biodiversity. Most protected land is in the West while numerous biodiversity hotspots go unprotected in the East.
- California's farmers have been pumping out groundwater at such a rate that the aquifers may never recover.
- Water scarcity in California is not caused by s specific crop (like almonds) but by the system in which water is allocated.
- This is the best time of year to hear Spring Peepers and other vocalizing amphibians.
- Bighorn Sheep are being reintroduced to Yosemite.
