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| Greater Sage-Grouse / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- In 2016, four birders broke the previous record for species seen in an ABA Area big year, which was set in 2013.
- A restored Burrowing Owl population in northeastern Oregon is threatened by a proposed solar farm.
- The irregular movements of White-winged Crossbills follow the availability of spruce and tamarack seed cones.
- Climate change and the loss of habitat to intensive farming is causing some breeding species to disappear from England.
- Scientists believe that the introduced Yellowhammer population in New Zealand has song dialects that disappeared from Britain.
- A new study mapped the movements of 1,000 nonnative bird species over the past 500 years.
- ABA Blog: 2016 Big Years: Non ABA Area edition
- Field and Footnotes: Pink Feet and Red Heads
- Australian Museum Blog: When the Frogs Go, the Snakes Follow
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: Lapland Longspur! What’s All the Fuss?
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Hairy vs Downy Woodpecker
- 10,000 Birds: Eating a Pigeon
- Mark D. Scherz, MSc: Important taxonomic advances on the skinks of Madagascar
- Shorebirder: Graylag Goose in Rhode Island
- Extinction Countdown: Polar Bear Conservation Plan Calls Climate Change "the Primary Threat" to Their Survival
- Bug Eric: A Carrion Beetle That Isn't?
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Siberian Thrush
- A study used chemical analysis of Monarchs in scientific collections to tell where the migratory butterflies originated in North America. The research is expected to help guide conservation efforts.
- The US is enforcing a new rule requiring companies that import seafood to protect marine mammals from becoming bycatch under the same rules that American fishermen have to follow.
- Conservationists at Blackwater NWR are attempting to raise the level of the marsh enough for native Spartina grasses to thrive despite rapid sea level rise.
- A growing fissure suggests that the Larsen C ice shelf — the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica — could soon break apart and fall into the sea, but it is difficult to predict how soon that will happen.
- Tongass National Forest in Alaska is the last national forest in the U.S. that permits logging old-growth trees.
- Rusty-patched Bumblebees are being given endangered species protection and will need habitat protection and pesticide reduction to recover.
- Climate change is forcing marine animals like squid and cod to shift their ranges, which has a direct effect on what sorts of seafood are available in a given area.
- This week, Obama expanded the California Coastal National Monument and Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and designated three new historic monuments commemorating the Civil Rights Movement and Reconstruction.
