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| Mountain Bluebird / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- After the eruption of a volcano in the Aleutians buried a seabird nesting site, Crested and Least Auklets shifted their colony to a suitable location nearby.
- A new bird-of-paradise species was described on the basis of its distinctive courtship dance.
- Whooping Cranes prefer habitat that has a mixture of farmland and wetlands and wetlands that have larger basins.
- An ornithologist discusses the damage done by the student who stole hundreds of bird specimens from the Tring Natural History Museum, the subject of a recent book. Here is another review.
- BirdLife's State of the World’s Birds for 2018 found that even some well-known species like the European Turtle-Dove are threatened.
- While migrating north, Swainson's Hawks feast on caterpillars in the Anza-Borrego desert, despite the caterpillars' chemical defenses that deter most other predators.
- Citizen science data is providing new information on the seasonal distribution of migratory birds.
- A study assessed the mismatch between peak caterpillar abundance and breeding times for British birds. The mismatch is likely to become greater with climate change.
- Federal officials charged six men in Florida with trafficking over 400 migratory birds.
- EBird introduced a photo and sound identification quiz, which can be set to any location.
- Here is a review of Audubon's new smartphone app.
- A photographer in Florida took photos of an Osprey carrying a shark holding a fish.
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Loggerhead Shrike Allofeeding Courtship Behavior Plus a Close Up
- The Prairie Ecologist: Re-emerging into the Warm Sunshine
- robertscribbler: CO2 is Regularly Exceeding 410 Parts Per Million for First Time in Human History
- earthstar: Cuckoo bees
- Extinction Countdown: Poachers versus Poop
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Crested or Chinese Myna: Images of the nesting pair
- 10,000 Birds: Red-tails in Lust
- The EPA proposed a rule change that would require using only studies in which the underlying data was published, even though federal law bans the publication of private medical data used for public health studies.
- Biodiversity should be protected because living things have their own innate value, not just because they might be useful to humans at some point.
- Exotic pets may have been taken directly from the wild.
- Fire is an important tool for maintaining habitats like prairies.
- Despite the benefits of urban trees for shade and filtering pollutants, US urban forests are losing about 36 million trees per year.
- Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine will finally get road signs directing visitors there, 18 months after Obama created the monument. The delay is due to foot-dragging by Maine's governor.
- New Jersey's DEP has recommendations for avoiding problems with bears.
- Invasive longhorned ticks survived the winter in New Jersey and may have become established.
