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| Wood Ducks / Photo by James Roane / USFWS |
- The Christmas Bird Count is still happening for another week and a half. See here to find one near you.
- Captive breeding has been proposed as a solution to Indonesia's declining songbird populations, but conservationists worry that it would end up being exploited by wildlife traffickers.
- The critically endangered Philippine Eagle persists despite a multitude of threats.
- A Stresemann's Bristlefront was photographed in Brazil, showing that the highly endangered species still exists.
- Captive-bred Madagascar Pochards were released into a lake in northern Madagascar in an attempt to rebuild their wild population.
- Chicago Ornithological Society: Identifying a Cackling Goose is Far from a Trivial Pursuit
- Wanstead Birder: Top ten bird images from 2018
- mocosocoBirds: The 83rd Boonton Christmas Bird Count Report – 2018
- 10,000 Birds: The 2018 Queens County Christmas Bird Count
- Snapshots of Nature: Long Island in Winter
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Rough-legged Hawk Photographed On Christmas Eve Day 2013
- The Fairywren Project: Preliminary Transect Results
- Living Alongside Wildlife: California Waters: Salamanders In The Cracks -- Guest Post
- Birding New Jersey: The Advent Bird
- Backyard and Beyond: To Bee Or Not To Bee
- New Jersey Audubon: 2018 Cape May Hawkwatch – 53,495 Raptors & More!!
- Gwen C. Katz: Birdmas Carols
- Freshwater Interdisciplinary Research and Engagement Lab: Getting to know the Twitter game #DamOrNot (post 1/2)
- Jacqueline Windh: Birding in Mexico
- Observations of Gray Wolves in northern Minnesota show that wolves have a more varied diet than expected and forage for berries and fish.
- Red-backed Salamanders play a key role in eastern forest ecosystems.
- Conservation groups want the US Fish and Wildlife Service to determine whether the Shasta Salamander deserves endangered protections before the Shasta Dam is enlarged.
- In Australia, Christmas comes with the emergence of Christmas beetles.
- The Harenna Forest in Ethiopia — home to wild coffee, the Nyala, and Ethiopian Wolves — is under pressure from logging and other extractive industries.
- Surveys of Rock Creek tributaries show that ten families of aquatic insects have disappeared from the watershed in the last decade and have found evidence sewage leaks.
- Dealing with climate change will require both rapid mitigation (eliminating fossil fuel use by 2050) and serious attempts at adaptation.
- During the shutdown, some volunteers are helping keep national parks functioning, but there is greater potential for vandalism or accidental emergencies.
- While the Trump administration has been ineffective at best on many fronts, one place where it has been very effective is undoing decades of environmental regulations.
- Companies that have been blocked by local opposition from using West Coast ports to export fossil fuels keep seeking workarounds at other levels of government.
- Here is a series of graphics showing how each US state generates electricity.
- CNN has a gallery showing what the US-Mexico border actually looks like, from west to east.
- The best response to China's restrictions on plastic recycling would be to reduce plastic use as much as possible.
