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| Pied-billed Grebes / Photo by Jim Hudgins/USFWS |
- Ringed Kingfishers have gone from being a rarity north of the Rio Grande to being residents in southern and central Texas.
- Birds migrating across the Great Lakes increase altitude at dawn and head for the nearest shore, according to a study using weather radar. The study emphasizes the importance of maintaining shoreline habitat.
- The endangered Greater Adjutant Stork population in India is rebounding thanks to an ongoing education campaign.
- The feathered tail of a young theropod dinosaur was found preserved in amber.
- Fort Bragg hosts the second largest population of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers after Apalachicola National Forest, and several other southeastern military bases also host breeding populations.
- Several thousand Snow Geese died in Montana after a storm forced them to land in the toxic waters of a former open pit mine. Similar incidents have happened there before.
- The decision to nominate the Gray Jay as Canada's national bird has been controversial.
- Extinction Countdown: 13 Bird Species Declared Extinct
- The Rattling Crow: On Magpie marriages
- North Coast Diaries: Hearing is believing…
- Laura's Birding Blog: House Sparrows
- Outside My Window: A Serrated Tongue
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Comparing Adult Ring-billed and California Gulls
- 10,000 Birds: Justified and Ancient
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: Ghost of the Meadowlands
- ABA Blog: An Opportunity to Help ‘Elepaios in Hawaii
- Activists at Standing Rock won a victory this week when the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement before granting an easement for the energy company to dig under the Missouri River. However, the fight is not over since the easement could still be granted.
- Trump's likely nominee for the EPA is Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who opposes Obama's Clean Power Plan and other environmental policies and borrowed language from industry lobbyists in attacking energy regulations. He also has a record of using his office to harass members of the Humane Society. This has alarmed EPA employees.
- This was the warmest autumn on record for the 48 contiguous US states.
- Sea ice extent in November set record lows in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Pacific Fishers are being reintroduced to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.
- A new report identifies places around the New York metropolitan area most at risk from sea level rise. Such areas include a lot of critical infrastructure.
- The "drain the swamp" rhetoric from the election (started by conservatives but echoed by liberals) sparked a response from biologists in the form of a #ReignTheSwamp hashtag highlighting wetland biodiversity.
