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| Golden Eagle / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count. You can submit counts from either your backyard or somewhere else. The project used to be limited to North America, but it recent years has been extended to the whole world, as it will again this year.
- Plastic trash in all sizes litters the European Arctic, and it is harming the seabirds that nest there.
- A study in California found that some types of fire management reduce habitat for bird species without significantly reducing the risk of wildfires.
- Fracking projects make it harder for Louisiana Waterthrushes to breed and raise young successfully, probably because of water pollution.
- Anna's Hummingbirds are more likely to carry mites on their tail feathers than some other western hummingbirds.
- Old-growth tropical forests support greater bird diversity than second-growth forests.
- Higher temperatures are likely to reduce the nesting habitat for Sharp-tailed Grouse.
- A series of photos shows a Bald Eagle stealing a lamprey from a sea lion off the coast of California.
- Feathered Photography: Landing Gadwall (and why I can still enjoy a flawed image)
- ornithologi: American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) Illustration with a Note on the Evolution of Cinclidae
- Avian Ecologist: Anthropology & Ornithology Musings
- Stokes Birding Blog: Lesser Scaup Identification
- Backyard and Beyond: Bald Eagles Over the Hudson
- A recent op-ed piece that minimized the importance of stopping extinctions is part of an unfortunate trend among conservationists, including some leaders of organizations like the Nature Conservancy.
- Using genetic and fossil data, lepidopterists have proposed a new evolutionary tree for butterflies.
- A proposed reorganization of the Interior Department could muddle agency responsibilities and reduce the role of science in decision-making.
- A new study showed that the rate of sea level rise is accelerating and could double in the next century.
- A Republican opponent of national monuments owned land within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and that parcel was cut out of the national monument by the Trump administration. That may be why the administration does not want to release documents related to the decision.
- In 2017, the Trump administration fined polluters 49% less than the three previous administrations had.
- The proposed border wall would undo years of collaborative conservation work along the border by the U.S. and Mexico. The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is an early battleground in the fight over new border wall construction.
- The inherent uncertainties of climate research are misunderstood by the media and used as excuses for inaction by politicians.
- Trudeau's government has proposed new rules for reviewing the environmental impacts of new developments.
- The number of oil and gas drilling rigs in the U.S. rose 38% in the past year.
- Smaller fields with borders are more helpful to bees than crop diversity.
- Promoting "multiple use" strategies for public lands can have a detrimental effect on wildife and the land itself.
- Many insect studies (especially regarding using them as biocontrols for pest species) are missing data necessary to replicate them.
- The massive petroleum condensate spill in the East China Sea is likely to affect the region's productive fisheries.
- DuPont went to great lengths to cover up the existence of a plume of toxic waste from one of its plants under 400 homes in North Jersey.
