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| Kirtland's Warbler / Photo by Jim Hudgins/USFWS |
- Satellite tracking revealed that Common Nighthawks that breed in Alberta spend the winter in central Brazil and cross the Gulf of Mexico to get there. See this Twitter thread for more.
- Seabirds are known to cycle nutrients from the ocean back to land, and it appears that they perform the same cycle for microplastics.
- A small population of diving-petrels on Codfish Island in New Zealand was recently confirmed to be a unique (and endangered) species. The species used to occur elsewhere in New Zealand but was wiped out by invasive rats. The colony remaining on Codfish Island is vulnerable to climate change.
- Volunteers have found storm-petrels nesting in burrows in Chile's Atacama desert.
- EBird is changing the way it handles the checklist review process.
- Changes in land use patterns favor species that can take advantage of alternative habitats, like Chipping Sparrows.
- Piping Plovers are having a difficult breeding season this year because of poor weather in June.
- Northern Bald Ibises are being reintroduced to central Europe, with ultralight aircraft teaching them how to migrate south.
- Golden-crowned Sparrows use both crown patches and individual recognition to resolve status within flocks.
- Male white morph White-throated Sparrows age faster but live longer than tan morph males, while tan morph females both age faster and live shorter lives.
- A warmer climate could make Acadian Flycatchers less common in the Midwest.
- An artist sketched the lives and conservation problems that seabirds face in New Zealand.
- Habitat for endangered Swift Parrots is being destroyed by logging.
- Fish Crows have expanded their range inland in New Jersey since the 1980s.
- In the late summer, thousands of migrating Purple Martins roost on bridges in coastal North Carolina.
- Here is an image gallery of the female Common Merganser followed by 76 ducklings.
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
- Avian Hybrids: The Flight of the Condor: How the Andes shapes patterns of gene flow
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Blue Rock-thrush – juveniles
- Stokes Birding Blog: Fledgling Birds, What You Should Know
- Shorebirder: CT shearwater bonanza
- National Moth Week: Training a Computer to Identify Moths – Guest post by Andre Poremski
- A scientific report predicts that an extended border wall will harm many species on both sides of the border, and not just those in the path of the wall itself.
- A policy emphasizing science and the precautionary principle in managing national parks was rescinded by the National Park Service under pressure from Ryan Zinke.
- New Jersey has become a target for wildlife smugglers because of its populations of diamondback terrapins and glass eels, and its ports and airports are hubs for the illegal wildlife trade. Here is an interview on wildlife trafficking with the founder of Annamiticus.
- Reducing the amount of plastic that escapes into the environment will require coordinated actions at the local and international levels.
- Anoles that survive hurricanes tend to have longer front legs and larger toe pads but shorter hind legs.
- This year's National Moth Week continues through Sunday night.
