Friday, June 24, 2016

Loose Feathers #551

Piping Plover in flight / Photo by Joel Trick (USFWS)
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Loose Feathers #550

Nelson's Sparrow / Photo by Rick Bohn/USFWS
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  • The carbon dioxide monitoring station in Antarctic exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in 4 million years. Meanwhile a new study shows that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are unlikely to drop below 400 ppm again within our lifetimes.
  • Satellite imagery revealed that there was illegal logging in Mexico's Sierra Chincua, one of the wintering sites for Monarchs.
  • Removal of a dam has brought river herring back to the Wynants Kill in the Hudson River watershed for the first time in 85 years.

Friday, June 10, 2016

Loose Feathers #549

Ruddy Turnstone and Red Knot / Photo by Gregory Breese/USFWS
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Friday, June 03, 2016

Loose Feathers #548

Piping Plover chick / Photo by Sarah Fensmore/USFWS
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