Birds and birding news
- EBird has an animation of the Indigo Bunting's range and migration. The species winters in Central America and breeds mostly in the southern and eastern U.S., reaching as far north as southern Canada (but avoiding northern forests).
- The Dark Ecology Project is developing tools to estimate bird density during migration from radar imagery.
- Fifty years since its founding, the Breeding Bird Survey continues to document the shifting status of North American bird populations.
- Piping Plovers nested in Pennsylvania for the first time in 60 years, with two pairs at Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie. It is also the first confirmed nest on Lake Erie since 1977.
- Kelp Gulls and Dolphin Gulls are attacking seal pups and flaying whales. Gull populations boomed in Chile due to scavenging opportunities at landfills near the coast.
- The plan to build the first portion of the new border wall through Santa Ana NWR continues to spark outrage. The American Bird Conservancy, like the American Birding Association, opposes building a wall through the refuge.
- The Táchira Antpitta, which was long though extinct, was recently rediscovered, recorded, and photographed in Venezuela's El Tamá National Park.
- Eastern North American forest birds are most threatened on their wintering grounds.
- The remains of an extinct bullfinch species have been found in the Azores.
- Scotland's Capercaillie population is in decline, partly from wetter summers caused by climate change.
- Lake Erie's Icebreaker Wind project, which is opposed by the American Bird Conservancy because of threats to migratory birds, is closer to state certification.
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