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| Pied-billed Grebe / Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Conservationists hope that an increase in ecotourism will help protect bird habitats in Colombia.
- Climate change is shifting the ranges of many bird species and encouraging them to migrate shorter distances in the winter.
- The recent bird festival at Malheur NWR drew birders from across the country.
- Fossil evidence suggests that the birds that survived the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous did so because they could eat seeds.
- Scientists have identified a gene that influences beak size in Darwin's finches.
- Louisiana is trying to rebuild its barrier islands as a buffer against storms and climate change, and the restored islands are providing new habitat for coastal birds.
- A search is under way for breeding Black-capped Petrels in Dominica.
- Coffee & Conservation: Rainforest Alliance impacts report, Part 2
- Ibycter: Cheapskate Tuesday 29: Alligator Lizards with the A720 IS
- 10,000 Birds: Coral bleaching along Broome’s coast
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Stalking the Wild Ephemerals
- ABA Blog: Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names an Online Searchable Database
- Your Great Outdoors: The 8 Most Difficult Birds to Spot During Bird-a-thon
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide recently passed 409 ppm for the first time, and it seems likely that it will surpass 500 ppm before the end of the century.
- It is common to view labor and environmentalism as competing interests, but the same forces making the environment worse are also working against labor.
- Island Foxes have a surprisingly low level of genetic diversity. One subspecies, the San Nicolas Island Fox, has the lowest genetic diversity ever recorded.
- Scientists have discovered a new 600-mile coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River.
- Climate change action will not by itself stop the public health problems caused by smog in developing countries unless the problems are explicitly tied together.
- While hunting is generally more efficient for deer control, some suburban communities have turned to birth control to limit their deer populations.
- Here are some tips for photographing wildflowers.
