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| Ruffed Grouse with chicks / Photo by Lindsay Stedman/USFWS |
- Hazing ravens with lasers may offer a nonlethal way to protect desert tortoises from predation.
- A study of Saltmarsh and Nelson's Sparrows in New England found that hybrids may not be diagnosable in the field.
- Reintroduction of Northern Bobwhite to the New Jersey Pinelands is going well; so far 45 of the 80 birds released have survived and there are at least 3 nests.
- Researchers are experimenting with ways to coordinate surveys of American Oystercatchers across multiple government agencies.
- Nightingales with more orderly or complex songs feed their offspring more often.
- Male birds that do not hold breeding territories help preserve genetic diversity in endangered species through extra-pair mating.
- A composer in New York combined the songs of the state's breeding birds into a musical composition.
- A Bald Eagle killed by a car near Rochester was the nation's oldest at 38 years old.
- Laura's Birding Blog: 2015 Mourning Dove Survey
- Mark Avery: African vultures plummet in numbers - new study shows
- Extinction Countdown: The Sneaky Ways Two Frogs Are Beating a Killer Fungus
- March of the Fossil Penguins: King Penguins and Ice Ages
- Bug Eric: The Myth of "Good Bugs" and "Bad Bugs"
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: The Distributed Brainpower of Social Insects
- Yesterday Pope Francis published an encyclical on climate change and the environment.
- Scott Walker has systematically dismantled Wisconsin's environmental laws and muzzled the state's scientists on issues like climate change.
- This is National Pollinator Week. Here are some ways you can help pollinators. More bee species need protection than just the ones that are known to pollinate crops. A new survey is studying Alaska's bumblebees.
- Researchers are experimenting with flies from the Pacific Northwest to control hemlock woolly adelgids in eastern forests.
- Native Bella Moths are helping control invasive Crotalaria plants in Florida.
- The poorest areas are often the most polluted.
- The beach rose manages to survive in conditions too harsh for most plants.
