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| Northern Harrier / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- The armed occupation at Malheur NWR continued for another week, with four holdouts left on the refuge. The occupation is a symptom of larger problems, and federal land managers are continually harassed into not following official management policies. The occupation may affect the proposed wilderness designation at a nearby site.
- An Indian birder saw a record 1,128 bird species during a big year in India in 2015.
- The numbers indicate that California Condors are recovering, but the species is nowhere close to surviving on its own.
- Corvids help spread the seeds of oaks and pines, and their seed caches may be key to whether some tree species can cope with climate change.
- The number and duration stopovers that Purple Martins make during migrations are linked to their body and wing size.
- Winter singing by migratory songbirds may be less about defending a territory and more about practicing for the following breeding season.
- A reader of Why Evolution Is True photographed interaction between a Black Vulture and Crested Caracaras.
- Little Blue Penguins from Australia invaded New Zealand about 500 years ago and replaced a native penguin species.
- Barn Owls are a widespread species but are declining in much of their range.
- Ravens can imagine being spied on even when potential competitors are unseen.
- Sanderlings are more commonly seen in Kentucky during autumn migration than in the spring.
- Australian parrots need more protection.
- Massachusetts had at least 51 breeding pairs of Bald Eagles last year.
- Here is a photo gallery of some of Costa Rica's hummingbirds.
- Small birds like the Eurasian Siskin prefer traveling in social groups.
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Butterflies Forty Million Years Before Butterflies
- The Artful Amoeba: The Venus Flytrap Can Count Past 2
- Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: Native Grasses for the Backyard
- Nemesis Bird: Delaware Goose-a-thon 2016 by Alex Lamoreaux
- Anything Larus: Appledore Gulls - Herring x Lesser Black-backed Hybrids
- The Smaller Majority: Lungless and happy about it
- 10,000 Birds: Cattle Egrets Eating Herps at the Viera Wetlands
- Pioneer Birding: MA - an interesting 'Yellow-legged'-type Gull at Turner's Falls
- ScienceBorealis.ca Blog: World Wetlands Day: The Hunter and the Number Cruncher
- Tuesday was World Wetlands Day, a day to celebrate these vital but threatened habitats.
- A new bridge in Singapore is helping pangolins and other animals cross a busy highway.
- Attacks and uncomfortable encounters between humans and large carnivores are often linked to risky behaviors.
- The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan, is a reminder that environmental lead exposure is a serious problem around the country, including in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Lead may be present in the soil in addition to old paint and drinking water.
- Most of the Great Bear Rainforest will be off-limits to logging.
- Salamanders will be migrating soon to vernal pools in the northeast.
- A plan to install solar panels at Six Flags in New Jersey would involve destroying 66 acres of Pinelands habitat; opponents of the plan want the amusement park to install the solar panels in the parking lot instead.
- Fish with sexual mutations have turned up in the Great Swamp and Walkill River, which suggests that those watersheds may be more polluted than thought.
