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| Piping Plover / Photo by Joel Trick/USFWS |
- Migrating birds are struggling along the Pacific Flyway because of the drought.
- The Center for Biological Diversity wants a new review of the Tricolored Blackbird's conservation status.
- Scarlet Macaws reintroduced to Palenque, Mexico, have adapted well to local food sources.
- El Dorado Nature Reserve in northern Colombia was expanded to protect the endangered Santa Marta Parakeet.
- A conservation program in Minnesota seeks to create more Golden-winged Warbler habitat through selective logging.
- A biologist wrote about his love of Green Herons [pdf].
- House Sparrows are often overlooked but have interesting life histories.
- Oriental Honey Buzzards might be able to smell the pollen put out for bees.
- Introduced birds in Hawaii do not disperse seeds as well as native ones.
- Here are some Australian animals at risk of extinction, including the Swift Parrot.
- ABA Blog: UPDATE: Migratory Bird Treaty Act Safe For Now
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Encounter with a one-eyed Buffy Fish-owl
- All About Birds: Preview the New All About Birds—and Tell Us What You Think
- 10,000 Birds: The Bird 10K Project
- Birding New Jersey: Casualties of War
- Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort: History in the Making – Record Number of GLPIPL Pairs this year!
- Laelaps: Paleo Profile: Zhenyuanlong suni
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: This Beetle is Ruining Your Coffee With the Help of Bacteria
- Notes of Nature: Stonecrop Identification (Biting, English, and White)
- Bug Eric: Thin-legged Wolf Spiders, genus Pardosa
- Extinction Countdown: Endangered Antelope with Fur More Valuable Than Gold on Its Way to Recovery
- Cicada Mania: Major Changes to the Tibicen genera
- Next week is National Moth Week. You can participate by doing some mothing yourself or attending one of the many events around the world. Data should be submitted to one of the websites listed here.
- Just in time for moth week, scientists have discovered a new family of moths, the Pseudobistonidae, described from a specimen captured in Thailand in 1989.
- A recent study found that climate change is driving bumblebee range contraction, but habitat loss and introduced parasites are significant factors as well.
- An oil pipeline in Alberta is leaking.
- A Humpback Whale was observed and photographed feeding off Sandy Hook.
- Wildlife, especially carnivores and scavengers, are an undervalued part of urban ecosystems.
- Congress passed an amendment that would prevent the National Park Service from ending sales of bottled water in national parks.
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions need not harm economic growth.
- Obama named three new national monuments last week.
- New Jersey legislators are working on a proposal to protect wildlife habitat on private land from the interference of homeowners associations and similar agencies.
- The US, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and Russia have agreed to a temporary moratorium on fishing in the Arctic until scientists can do more research on how rising sea temperatures will affect fish populations.
