Fox Sparrow / Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS |
- In most winters, American Kestrels that stay on territory through the winter nest earlier than ones that migrate.
- Several Laysan Albatrosses were killed and their nests destroyed on Hawaii in what appears to be a case of vandalism.
- Noah Strycker, the birder who did a global big year in 2015, reached 6,000 species this week and finished with a total of 6,042 bird species.
- NYC Audubon and other activists are trying (with some success) to reduce the number of unnecessary bird deaths in New York City.
- LepScience: Sometimes it takes 22 years to identify and classify a skipper butterfly!
- Laelaps: Flexible Necks Made the Classic “Dinosaur Death Pose”
- The Artful Amoeba: 134 New Beetles and Dragonflies, Hiding in Plain Sight
- The NJ legislature has voted to name the Black Swallowtail as the state butterfly.
- Temperatures in the Arctic reached above freezing this week due to an unusual storm.
- In my area, flowers were in bloom during the weeks before and after Christmas because of an unusual warm spell.
- The Christmas Fern gets its name from staying green through the winter and possibly from its use in Christmas wreaths.