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| Virginia Rail / Photo by Steve Arena/USFWS |
- Colorful plumage may not always be an honest signal of a bird's reproductive quality.
- The presence of so much plastic in the oceans is a major threat to seabirds, especially the albatrosses of the Midway Atoll.
- Sage-grouse in California currently have healthy genetic diversity.
- Burrowing Owls are successfully colonizing cities in Argentina.
- An albino Barn Swallow was spotted and photographed in the U.K.
- John James Audubon painted several bird species whose modern equivalent is unclear, and birders continue to puzzle over them.
- Oriental honey buzzards use sight and smell to raid apiaries.
- Inkfish: Penguins Find Each Other’s Beaks Sexy
- Rockablog: Roseate Terns on Rockabill, 2015. (Good news!!!)
- Extinction Countdown: Giant Panda Conservation Also Helps Other Unique Species in China
- The Smaller Majority: Ghost hunting
- 10,000 Birds: Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: A Virginia Rail in Kearny
- Brooklyn Parrots: Why exactly do Monk Parakeets fight?
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Courtship dance of the Pin-tailed Whydah (video)
- Outside My Window: In Powered Flight
- My Chicago Botanic Garden: Banning Species Blindness in Budding Botanists
- The concept of "missing links" promotes wrong ideas about how evolution works.
- Nature photographers should follow ethical guidelines, even if it means not getting the perfect shot.
- The Animas River spill shows that the government needs to clean up the toxic waste left by mining companies.
- The year so far has been setting temperature records.
- Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum, which appears to be the 4th lowest on record.
- The Sierra Nevada snowpack hit a 500-year low in 2015.
- Earlier this week, Australia deposed its climate change denying prime minister, but his replacement may not be much better, despite his earlier endorsement of climate action.
