Posts
 |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse / Photo by Rick Bohn/USFWS |
- Malheur NWR, site of a lengthy occupation by armed militants, is undergoing restoration to repair extensive damage and is expected to reopen to the public within the next month. It is now partially open for birding except for the area around the headquarters. Here is a photo essay on the current state of the refuge.
- The best way to start identifying gulls is to focus on learning the common ones first, like the Ring-billed Gull in North America.
- The high intelligence of parrots can make them difficult to study.
- Snowy Plovers have begun nesting in Oregon.
- Migratory birds can disperse seeds long distances, if conditions are favorable.
- An agreement will protect migratory shorebirds at Chinese stopover sites.
- Piping Plovers are doing well in New Jersey, especially in Monmouth County.
- Old tourist photos can show how seabird nesting colonies have changed.
- Both eaglets have hatched on the DC eagle cam.
- Four Bald Eagles were found dead in Delaware.
- Birders on the East Coast are asked to report sightings of Piping Plovers with pink bands.
- The Freiday Bird Blog: Fri-D: How to Find a March Black-headed Gull
- Living Alongside Wildlife: This "poisonous vs. non-poisonous" graphic is no good
- 10,000 Birds: New Zealand Loses Another Endemic
- Bug Eric: National Science Foundation Suspends Funding Support for Biological Collections
- Inkfish: Prozac in the Water Makes Fighting Fish More Mellow
- Wild Things: Unknown species hide among Texas cave crickets
- Plugged In: Texas Poised to Integrate More Wind, Solar Energy
- Illinois Botanizer: Symplocarpus foetidus
- Tails of Birding: Wood Ducks on the Wissahickon Creek
- A new paper argues that catastrophic climate shifts could happen within the next several decades, rather than the centuries that most climate models assume.
- Dam removal still makes sense in western states despite the multi-year drought.
- The NSF's freeze on funding for museum collections threatens a variety of important research. Maintaining collections of endangered species is threatened as well.
- Monarchs are at risk of extinction within the next two decades if their numbers do not increase.
- The combination of ash dieback and invasive beetles is likely to wipe out most ash trees in Europe.
- New York City is considering restoring some of the streams that were buried a century or more ago.
- A molecular clock lets periodical cicada nymphs know when it is time to emerge from the ground.
- Fishers have returned to New Jersey.
- Environmentalists are fighting a plan by Six Flags Great Adventure plans to cut about 70 acres of forest to build a solar farm. The environmental review for the site somehow missed a waterway that flows through the site.
