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| Atlantic Puffins / USFWS Photo |
- The recently-described Perijá Tapaculo is from a mountainous biodiversity hotspot that needs protection.
- Protection for Montagu's Harriers in the cereal crop season are ineffective if nests are not protected after harvest.
- A study suggests that sexual dimorphism in wood-warblers is caused by the risk of predation during migration.
- Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in Virginia are nesting 20 days earlier than in the 1960s.
- The new management plan for Greater Sage-Grouse ignores the threat from ranching.
- Study of Budgerigars finds that they copy yawns from other birds much like mammals do.
- The Vinaceous-breasted Amazon is in serious decline.
- Bird pollinators drive evolutionary divergence in some plant subspecies.
- Birds time egg laying so that caterpillars will be at their peak when the eggs hatch.
- An endangered Northern Bald Ibis colony faces an uncertain future after IS capture of Palmyra. (However, the loss of that colony would not mean extinction since there is another population in Morocco.)
- Here is an update on the reintroduction of Northern Bobwhite to New Jersey's Pinelands.
- Wild About Ants: Ants and Plants: Desert Willow Extrafloral Nectaries
- Shorebird Science: Birds Abound
- Mercenary Ornithology: The 100 Club
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Von Schrenck’s Bittern’s Breakfast: Dog-faced Water Snake
- The Digiscoper: Countersinging
- Anything Larus: The Colonel Returns - Spring 2015
- Marc Heath Wildlife Photography: The Emperor Emerges!
- Extinction Countdown: Memorializing the Wake Island Rail: An Extinction Caused by War
- Ibycter: Caracara interlude #2: scavenger hunt!
- 10,000 Birds: What’s in a Name: Wilson’s Warbler
- Laelaps: The Echoes of Toothed Birds
- This week the EPA published a new rule clarifying which streams and wetlands fall under its jurisdiction. The changes will help safeguard drinking water for communities that depend on surface water.
- Meanwhile, the USFWS has issued new regulations that would make it harder for citizens to petition to list species under the Endangered Species Act.
- Winter Moths are native to Europe but were introduced to North America in the 1990s. Since then they have become established in New England and are now defoliating trees there.
- There is a new phylogenetic tree for the grass family (Poaceae).
- Fewer students are choosing to study botany, and university herbaria are closing.
- Even drought-tolerant native trees are stressed from California's drought.
- There are real risks from tick bites.
- A project aims to reforest Oakland with native oak trees.
