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| Golden-cheeked Warbler / USFWS Photo |
- EBird will update its taxonomy on Monday; mobile users need to submit any pending checklists before then.
- Military and real estate interests want the Golden-cheeked Warbler's endangered species protections removed.
- Two new species of lice were discovered on Swainson's Warblers in Arkansas.
- California is urging campers to clean up after themselves to protect endangered Marbled Murrelets from nest predation by corvids.
- A northward shift in the Equatorial Undercurrent has helped the endangered Galápagos Penguin population.
- A photography contest of a rare Siberian Crane was cancelled in Taiwan because of fears the contest would disturb the crane.
- Black Skimmers are among the stranger bird species.
- World Shorebirds Day: Registration for the Global Shorebird Counting 2015 is open
- ABA Blog: Birding Aboard “SeaBC” Has Sailors Reporting Unusual Birds
- Arthropod Ecology: Curiosity, passion and science: On the natural history of an Arctic pseudoscorpion
- 10,000 Birds: What’s in a Name: MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Birding New Jersey!: Reading Like a Positivist
- Alien Plantation: What is going on with invasive knapweed? OR How I spent my PhD
- The City Birder: Shorebirding 101
- DeSmogBlog: Key Greenhouse Gas Study May Have "Systematically Understated" Methane Leaks, New Research Shows
- Mark Avery: A better year for Hen Harriers in England - not a good year
- robertscribbler: Worst Flood in 200 Years — 1.2 Million People Displaced by Rising Waters in India
- The Obama administration unveiled its climate change plan this week, and it was stronger than expected. Here is how to measure whether it is successful.
- Climate change may be driving worrisome wildfire trends in the western U.S.
- Geoengineering might be able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but it is unlikely to solve the problem of ocean acidification.
- A study of scavenging found that almost 80 vertebrate species scavenge carcasses around the world.
- Idaho backed down from its plan to kill wolves in a federal wilderness area.
- Monarch butterflies may not be as badly off as it seems since counts in their wintering grounds in Mexico do not account for the entire population. Seven new articles look at alternate indicators of population trends.
- Invasive snakehead fish continue to spread in the Potomac watershed and have now been found upstream from Great Falls.
- The latest potential threat to North American salamanders is a fungus spread through the pet trade.
- Bumblebees prefer to collect pollen on windy days.
- People should be allowed (even encouraged) to try alternatives to lawns.
- A bottlenose dolphin was spotted in South River, New Jersey, an inland freshwater waterway. Rescuers hoped to coax it back to Raritan Bay.
- Connecticut is mapping its turtle populations with the help of citizen science.
- New Jersey is home to 22 snake species.
