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| Sandhill Cranes / Photo by Mary Carlson/USFWS |
- The Golden-crowned Manakin seems to be the result of hybridization between the Opal-crowned Manakin and the Snow-capped Manakin.
- On the Friday afternoon before Christmas, the Trump administration announced that they would no longer enforce the Migratory Bird Treaty Act against energy companies that accidentally kill birds.
- A new study found variation among the calls of the five eastern Marsh Wren subspecies.
- Efforts to save the Kakapo are making progress but success will depend on the creation of more safe havens from invasive predators, including on New Zealand's mainland.
- The number of Kirtland's Warblers in Wisconsin hit a record high in 2017.
- BirdLife has a list of 10 birds that were saved from extinction.
- On the other hand, there is a good chance that the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow will go extinct in 2018.
- A Band-rumped Storm-Petrel pair was found nesting on Mauna Loa, the first confirmed pair in Hawaii.
- There are early signs of another Snowy Owl irruption on the east coast this winter.
- Living Alongside Wildlife: The Animals That Went Extinct in 2017
- Incidental Naturalist: Angels of Death – Turkey Vulture
- Feathered Photography: A Trio Of Common Mergansers In Flight
- mocosocoBirds: The 82nd Boonton Christmas Bird Count Report – 2017
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Immature Light Morph Rough-legged Hawk in Flight & Landing
- Birding the day away !!: Glaucous Gull ~ Juvenile ~ Dungeness, Kent - 23.12.17
- earthstar: Four and twenty blackbirds
- amateurnithologist: Bird Ornament Detective
- A new study calculates that the earth's vegetation could hold twice as much carbon as it currently does if habitats were restored to their natural states.
- Like other sources of misinformation, climate change deniers have gamed Google's algorithms so that links to denialist websites appear alongside sources of valid information.
- A new checklist includes every vascular plant from the Americas, nearly 125,000 species.
- Brazil's current administration has largely dropped its commitments under the Paris agreement and stopped enforcing other environmental laws as well, with devastating effects for the Pantanal.
- A bill would make even more drastic changes to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, including taking its administration away from the National Park Service or other federal land management agencies.
- A species of freshwater snail was declared extinct while it was waiting for endangered listing.
- The citizen science site iNaturalist has already logged one-third of known vertebrate species.
- Here is a top-20 list of species discovered in 2017.
