Elfin-woods Warbler / Photo by Mike Morel/USFWS |
- The Elfin-woods Warbler, a bird endemic to Puerto Rico, will be listed as a threatened species.
- Eurasian Wrens that winter in more northerly locations are more resilient to cold weather than ones that winter farther south.
- Adélie Penguins could undergo a sharp population decline as climate change threatens 60% of their current breeding sites in Antarctica.
- A wild population of Spix's Macaws may have been discovered in Brazil.
- A series of human-induced fatalities has set back the Piping Plover recovery program in Connecticut.
- A Western Sandpiper spotted in San Francisco Bay had been banded in Panama. Reporting banded birds to the Bird Banding Lab adds to knowledge about bird distribution and migration routes.
- The Raptor Trust in central New Jersey has suffered from storm damage and the death of its founder, but it has recovered and is building for the future.
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- GlacierHub: Study shows glacial melting changes mountain lake ecology
- 10,000 Birds: Red-necked Grebes in Germany
- National Moth Week: Submit Your Moth Sightings to BAMONA
- BugBlog: Stretch spider portrait
- Wanstead Birder: Slavonian Grebe (European)
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- Zoologger: Roller-coasting birds soar for months and may snooze while aloft
- Both the Raritan and the Passaic have relatively clean headwaters but suffer from industrialization and pollution further downstream that affects the cities along their lower watersheds.
- Here are some misconceptions about American Toads in New Jersey.