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| Yellow-headed Blackbirds / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Resident bird populations around Fukushima have declined since the nuclear disaster.
- A three-year project is reintroducing Northern Bobwhite to the New Jersey Pinelands.
- A study of African birds shows that they are full of malaria parasite diversity.
- Spring hunting will remain legal in Malta after its supporters won a referendum with a slim majority. See also BirdLife's statement via Mark Avery's blog.
- Birders in Taiwan are preparing for a big day competition.
- A rare melanistic Greater Flamingo has been observed on the island of Cyprus.
- Sibley Guides: The mysterious sounds of the American Woodcock
- ABA Blog: 2015 AOU Check-list Proposals, Part 3
- Coyote Crossing: Orthodoxy in the Climate Movement: Franzen and His Deniers
- Morningside Hawks: Manhattan Hawk Nest Checklist, 2015
- 10,000 Birds: Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley
- Laelaps: The Call of the Terror Bird
- North Coast Diaries: The phenological margins
- Ben Cruachan: An Avian Alphabet, A – H.
- A More Human Nature: The Anthropocene as Neoliberal Environmentalism
- Wildfires emit more greenhouse gases than assumed in California climate targets.
- Insecticide contamination of waterways is worse than previously reported.
- Mendocino County in California has suspended its contract with USDA Wildlife Services in the wake of a lawsuit charging that the contract violates state law.
- Much attention has been given to California's water problems, but the Rio Grande watershed is also severely strained by the drought.
- The Northern Long-eared Bat has been listed as a threatened species.
- Climate change will affect inland areas like Morris County as well as coastal ones.
- A previous mass extinction event seems to have been linked to rapid ocean acidification.
