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| Yellow-headed Blackbirds / Photo by K. Theule/USFWS |
- The AOU has released a third batch of checklist proposals. This batch includes a substantial reorganization of the AOU checklist based on recent genetic research.
- Bird populations are shifting in response to climate change in both North America and Europe.
- The American Bird Conservancy is suing the New York park system over the continued presence of feral cat colonies near the nesting grounds for endangered Piping Plovers on Jones Beach.
- Plumage can get its colors from either structure or pigment.
- Broadbills have been filmed while creating sounds with their wings.
- Oystercatchers are among the easiest shorebirds to identify.
- The time of breeding for Ruffs is linked to the availability of grass for cover.
- There are many web cams showing events in Bald Eagle nests.
- A new paper explains the mating dynamics of White-throated Sparrows.
- The Nature of Cities: A Threatened Old Forest Tells a Story Relevant to Every Urban Forest
- Skeptical Science: Why is 2016 smashing heat records?
- TwoHawksNYC: Hawk House Hunters: Urban Nest Edition
- CitizenSci: Logging Your Local Woodland for Citizen Science: No Axe Required!
- Inkfish: These Birds Learn to Recognize Humans They Hate
- Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.: HBP Presents: Hybrid Theory Revisited
- A new study of historical sea levels concludes that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse much faster than models predict.
- Latin American environmentalists are routinely subjected to harassment and assassination.
- Fracking is likely to blame for unusual earthquakes in western Canada.
- Natural predators are helping to control invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs.
- A side effect of removing the dams from the Elwha River is that the sediment that previously was trapped behind the dams has now formed a new beach at the mouth of the river.
- Genetically engineered American Chestnut trees have been slow to arrive due to difficulties getting the new trees to produce roots.
- Packrat nests hold a record of the plants that used to grow at a site.
- A tribe in Montana plans to recreate a bison herd with bison from Canada.
- A citizen science project is looking for observations of trout lilies.
