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- The fallout from the armed occupation of Malheur NWR continues with new charges for damaging Paiute cultural sites.
- Many birders dislike European Starlings because of their effect on native birds.
- Climate change may be causing some wild Zebra Finches to hatch faster than the siblings.
- The 13 Bald Eagles found dead in Maryland did not die of natural causes.
- A Mute Swan died in Macedonia after a woman dragged it from a lake for a selfie.
- Snares left to catch wolves caught two Golden Eagles and other wildlife instead.
- 10,000 Birds: Caspian Gull: The continental gull
- Extinction Countdown: Should Yellowstone Grizzlies Lose Their Protected Status?
- Bug Chicks: Solifuge Arachnids (that's Latin for awesome)
- wadertales: Spring moult in Black-tailed Godwits
- World Shorebirds Day: Poll opens for the 2016 ‘Shorebird of the Year’
- The Corvid Blog: Australian Magpies Are Not Corvids
- Anything Larus: 2nd Cycle Herring & Thayer's
- Bird Ecology Study Group: House Crow handling a toad
- Birding Dude: Banded Ring-billed Gull - BZHC
- Inkfish: Plants Build Sand Armor to Fight Hungry Animals
- Endangered New Jersey: Bobwhite Quail Restoration
- This week the US and Canada announced an agreement to cut methane emissions and implement the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
- A study of sediment cores showed that the extent of Antarctica's glaciers is tied to atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- Despite a year of record-setting temperatures, television networks gave scant coverage to climate change.
- Botanists try to forecast peak blooming periods for California's deserts.
- Mowing less along highways may preserve pollinator diversity.
- A rare Riverbank Goldenrod was found in Maryland after being missing from the state for 112 years.
- Here is a message from spiders.
- A ruptured pipeline in Bayonne, New Jersey, spilled 128,000 gallons of oil into a park and neighborhood.
- Eastern forests are more vulnerable to drought now than in the 18th century.
- The Forest Service turned down a housing and commercial development near the Grand Canyon.
- Data from the USA National Phenology Network shows that plants are leafing out much earlier than usual this year in the southeast and along the west coast.