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| Black-and-white Warbler / Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Geolocators are useful for tracking birds' migratory routes, but a study of Cerulean Warblers found that individuals wearing them were less likely to return to their breeding grounds the following spring.
- Scientists are using satellite imagery to count the Northern Royal Albatrosses nesting in the Chatham Islands.
- A 15-year-old Piping Plover returned to his usual breeding beach at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
- Hummingbirds prefer more sugar-dense nectar, but less dominant species and individuals will resort to nectar with less sugar when necessary.
- More data is needed on how well coastal habitats serve the needs of birds that migrate over or around the Gulf of Mexico.
- A female Red-winged Blackbird turned up in the Orkneys this week.
- A new feathered dinosaur fossil is notable for having asymmetrical feathers, which are believed to be a precondition for the ability to fly.
- A Nicobar Pigeon, the Dodo's closest living relative, was found on mainland Australia (near Broome) for the first time.
- Finally, tomorrow is the World Series of Birding, a birding competition held every May in New Jersey. I will be participating as a member of the Middlesex Merlins, and we will be covering Middlesex County to compete for the Limited Geographic Area award.
- Earbirding: Unfamiliarity: A Field Mark
- Outside My Window: A Common Thread
- The Prairie Ecologist: Frosty Monarchs
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Black-crowned Night-heron baiting fish
- ornithologi.com: Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius sulphureipygius) Foraging in the Dark Understory of Southern Belize
- wadertales: Wader declines in the shrinking Yellow Sea
- 10,000 Birds: Black-and-white Warblers, or, the Striped Nuthatch-Creeper-Warbler
- Backyard and Beyond: Audubon II
- Arctic Sea Ice: PIOMAS May 2017
- ImaGeo: The Arctic as we once knew it is going, going...
- NPS has been monitoring sound in wild areas for the past decade and found excessive human-generated noise even in the most remote places. The finding has implications for conservation since noise disrupts numerous animal activities.
- Last Saturday, the People's Climate March brought thousands of activists to Washington to push for action on climate change. The day prior to the march, the NY Times debuted a climate change denialist on its Op-Ed page, and the EPA wiped its climate site. Climate and environmental policies may well be the Trump administration's most lasting legacy.
- Nearly one quarter of native bee species in North America and Hawaii are in decline and at risk of extinction.
- A female orca that washed ashore in Scotland contained one of the highest levels of PCBs ever found in a marine mammal.
- Wolves have rebounded in and around Yellowstone National Park, but hunting outside of park boundaries poses a new threat to population stability.
- New Jersey (probably like other states) lacks contingency plans for what to do if proposed EPA cuts are enacted.
- Wolves have settled in Denmark for the first time in 200 years.
- The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has suddenly forked.
- Scientists rediscovered and redescribed a monitor lizard from Papua New Guinea; the original type specimen was lost in a shipwreck.
- Walrus and caribou are threatened by climate change in the Canadian Arctic.
