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| Red Knot with other shorebirds / Photo credit: Gregory Breese/USFWS |
- A federal judge removed endangered species protections for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken on the grounds that existing voluntary conservation measures would be sufficient.
- Bullock's Oriole stop to molt in the Mexican monsoon region in the middle of their fall migration.
- Migratory songbirds avoid predators during migration by seeking out habitats with plenty of places to hide, like brushy forest edges.
- Female cowbirds pay attention to cowbird nestling survival and lay future eggs in nests where cowbird chicks have survived well.
- Anything Larus: Advanced Hatch Year Ring-billed Gulls
- Extinction Countdown: Thylacine Hunted into Extinction for No Reason, Study Reveals
- North Coast Diaries: Find the Yellow Jacket
- Wild New Jersey: Bird Molting
- Wanderin' Weeta: Calling all Rock Flippers!
- The oil industry managed to derail a bill in California that would have reduced gasoline use by 50%.
- This year's El Niño is predicted to be one of the strongest on record but will not be enough to alleviate long-term drought in the western U.S.
- A wildfire in the Pinelands may have been caused by carelessly discarded charcoal.
- Kuwait became the 169th signatory to the Ramsar Convention and designated its first wetland reserve under the convention.
