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- Last year, there were 185 active Bald Eagle nests in New Jersey, and they produced 172 young. About half of the state's nests were located in the Delaware Bay region. You can read the report of the New Jersey Bald Eagle Project here (pdf).
- At the Magellanic Penguin breeding colony at Punta Tombo in Argentina, males outnumber females by about three to one, most likely because females are more likely than males to die at sea. Their death rate seems to be tied to a serious population decline.
- Audubon covers the birding possibilities in the Red Dead Redemption video game.
- A proposed conservation area for the endangered Black-throated Finch in Australia sits on top of a proposed coal mine, which raises questions about how serious the conservation plan is.
- Living Alongside Wildlife: The Species That Went Extinct in 2018
- Corvid Research: 2018 research round up
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies: Field Guide to January 2019
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: New Year’s Day Neotropic Cormorant Sighting
- The Prairie Ecologist: It’s working! Evidence of benefits from seed-addition in degraded prairie.
- Feathered Photography: Sage Thrasher Throwing Up Multiple Fruit Pits
- Snapshots of Nature: Ringing in 2019 with Birds
- Laura's Birding Blog: Federal Workers Are FOR the Birds
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Hairy Woodpecker vs Downy Woopecker
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Pacific Gull eating a dead cuttlefish
- Otter Creek Audubon Society: Highlights of the 30th Annual Middlebury Christmas Bird Count
- Urban Hawks: Owl Walk
- Passive listening devices are an effective way to monitor biodiversity as well as threats like deforestation and poaching.
- If the Bsal fungus makes it to the U.S., it will infect salamander populations that are already facing a variety of threats.
- Pathogens like Sudden Oak Death have been introduced into restoration areas via plant nurseries.
- Even though most employees are furloughed, national parks have largely remained open during the federal government shutdown, with unsafe and unsanitary conditions as a result.
- Despite the shutdown, the EPA released a finding that would take a step towards deregulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. Such a move would increase the risks to public health in any states that rely on coal for electricity.
- Here is a summary of last month's developments in environmental policy.
- Meanwhile, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling would disturb much more of the refuge than the administration claims.
- A dam collapse in Laos over the summer resulted in massive deforestation.
- There is momentum for bans on plastic single-use straws, but straws are a small part of the total plastic problem.
- A boom intended to trap plastic in the Pacific Garbage Patch broke into two pieces and will need to be towed to shore.
- On his first day in office, Brazil's new president moved to open indigenous reserves to agricultural development.
