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- A new avian phylogenetic study puts bird families into five major groups and differs substantially from a phylogeny released last year. Read a summary here or the paper here.
- An accurate estimate of wintering bird populations require using multiple counting methods.
- Joulter Cays in the Bahamas, a wintering area for Piping Plovers and other shorebirds, will become a national park.
- A study of Rusty Blackbirds on their breeding grounds found that Red Squirrels are their most common nest predators and that some types of logging activity may reduce nest productivity.
- Ravens can cooperate to solve problems, but avoid partners who cheated in the past.
- A tiny ancient fossil from Spain shows the wing structure of a bird from the Early Cretaceous.
- Seabird communities have remained stable even as prey populations have fluctuated.
- BugBlog: Amaurobiidae: funnel web spiders
- Extinction Countdown: Endangered Hawaiian Bees and Other Species Proposed for Protection
- Sibley Guides: White flickers
- A "cute" video made the rounds this week of someone poking a sleeping sea otter — something which is illegal under federal law.
- Obama announced plans to create two new marine sanctuaries, one off the coast of Maryland and the other in Lake Michigan.
