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| Rufous Hummingbird visiting Showy Milkweed / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Much of our knowledge about the natural history of Song Sparrows builds on the pioneering work of Margaret Morse Nice, who tracked the progress of dozens of pairs in her home neighborhood in the 1930s.
- Barn Swallows in the US and Mediterranean have different mating preferences.
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Chestnut Munia: Adult, immature and juvenile
- mocosocoBirds: Birds on the Water Chestnut Mat – Aug 15, 2016
- Extinction Countdown: Are Bats Facing a Hidden Extinction Crisis?
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Field Sparrow
- Expansion of the border wall between the US and Mexico would harm ecosystems and wildlife on either side of the border, especially large mammals.
- This year has seen an escalating series of attempts by conservative lawmakers to give away swaths of federal land to states or private interests or parts of protected refuges to the Pentagon.
- Adapting parks to climate change is now a major part of NPS planning.
- Neonicotinoids have now been linked to wild bee population declines in the field.
- The presence of a bipedal bear in northern New Jersey has sparked debates over whether the bear should be captured and brought to a sanctuary for injured animals.
- A conservationist is making collages of invasive species out of parts of invasive plants.
- The golf course for the Summer Olympics was built on land that had been designated as a protected wildlife refuge.
- Citizen science can be as much about education and setting policy and research priorities as about simply collecting data.
