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| Bald Eagle with a fish / Photo by Ron Holmes/USFWS |
- This year's winter finch forecast has been published. It calls for small southward flights of Pine Grosbeaks, Red Crossbills, Evening Grosbeaks, and Purple Finches, among others.
- A research project in Seattle is investigating how crows react to the sight of dead crows.
- In Russia, Blakiston's Fish Owls seem to tolerate logging activity.
- Offshore wind farms could be more risky for Northern Gannets than previously thought.
- Oyster farming in Delaware Bay may discourage Red Knots from using nearby beaches.
- An Acadian Flycatcher drew hordes of birders when it showed up in the UK.
- The Smooth-billed Ani, a Florida specialty, has rapidly declined as the state has debated whether to protect them.
- Extinction Countdown: Rising Seas and Pounding Waves Will Threaten 3 Common Pacific Seabirds
- Anything Larus: New Longevity Record for North American Herring Gull
- Arthropod Ecology: Ecology from geology
- Ibycter: Agapostemon aggregations!!!
- Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort: 6 out of 7 Captive-Reared GLPIPL Chicks from 2015 Seen on Wintering Grounds
- The EPA issued a slightly lower limit on ozone emissions, a gas that contributes to smog.
- A federal fund for preserving land expired this week and may not be renewed.
- Intense wildfires may provide habitat for rare Pacific Fishers.
- Native plants support the greatest insect diversity, and non-native plants from the same families as native plants support more insects than non-native plants with no native relatives.
- Shell decided to stop trying to drill offshore in the Arctic.
- Solar power towers seem to be losing out to other technologies for harnessing solar energy in California.
