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| Northern Pintail / Photo by Brandon Jones/USFWS |
- House Finch songs can change over time since each generation has to learn the song from their parents.
- A Kirtland's Warbler was caught at a banding station in Jamaica — the first record of the species on that island.
- A colony of Burrowing Owls is thriving alongside Los Angeles International Airport.
- Offshore wind energy projects on the West Coast can be improved to reduce risk to seabirds like Marbled Murrelets.
- The extinct adzebills of New Zealand are related to the flufftails of Madagascar and Africa.
- Plastics have been found in the eggs of Northern Fulmars in the high Arctic.
- Even though they are conspicuous on their other breeding grounds, the Marbled Godwits breeding in Alaska went undetected until very recently.
- Skull and bill shape in birds depends as much on foraging behavior and evolutionary history as on diet.
- Streamers attached to fishing lines have reduced the seabird bycatch from long-line fishing by 77-90%.
- An Egyptian Goose was filmed pretending to be injured to lead a predator away from its goslings.
- Protecting small forests (such as Hutcheson Memorial Forest in New Jersey) is not sufficient to protect bird diversity without active monitoring and management.
- A flock of critically endangered Baer's Pochards were spotted in eastern China.
- The Bald Eagle known as "Justice" is still missing from the police academy nest in DC, while two other males have been competing to replace him. Rescuers may intervene to save and incubate the original eggs from the nest.
- Avian Hybrids: Protecting Penguins: Exploring population dynamics in several penguin species
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Oriental Pied Hornbill snatched Olive-backed Sunbird fledgling
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Pine Siskin Feeding On Musk Thistle Close Up
- MaghrebOrnitho: North African Buzzard is not a Long-legged but a Common Buzzard
- Ecology is not a dirty word: Insectageddon is a great story. But what are the facts?
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: In Search of Spring
- Stokes Birding Blog: Downy vs. Hairy Woodpecker, can you tell the difference?
- krista schlyer: La Parida: Where the Wild Things Were
- Feathered Photography: Rough-legged Hawk – Sometimes The Prey Bites Back, Even In Flight
- Shorebirder: Status of Wintering Golden Eagles in CT
- DCist: Photos: D.C. Doesn't Have One Hot Duck. It Has Many
- A major problem for insect conservation is that there is not enough long-term data to be sure whether populations are increasing or decreasing.
- Entomologists rediscovered a giant bee that was thought to be extinct after going unrecorded for several decades.
- Moose calves in New England are dying from tick infestations, which are made worse by climate change.
- Last year, engineers removed 82 outdated dams (pdf) on American rivers to restore migratory routes for fish and improve public safety.
- Scientists in Britain used DNA analysis to find out which garden flowers bees most like to visit.
- A more clear definition of what makes a forest a forest could help reduce deforestation and guide restoration efforts.
- This is the season when seals are often seen resting on sandbars and beaches along the east coast. It is best to leave them alone and watch from a distance.
- In recent years, the reality of climate change has become harder to deny, to the point that maybe people in power will become worried enough to do something about the crisis.
- A climate scientist lost her contract with the National Park Service because she resisted censorship of the report on sea level rise and national parks that was published last year.
- A Trump administration panel that will reassess the threat climate change poses to national security will be headed by a climate change denialist, who has some offensive ideas about carbon dioxide.
- In another form of denialism, a political appointee at the EPA thinks that some pollution is good for you.
- While the recent budget bill protected some sensitive sites like the National Butterfly Center and Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, the border wall still harms ecosystems along the border.
- Visitors to the Grand Canyon were exposed to radiation for decades because some buckets of uranium ore were stored in the visitor center.
- The European Parliament banned single-use plastics.
- The pipeline spilled 176,000 gallons of oil into a nearby creek near the Dakota Access protest site. Construction of the pipeline was subject to protests partly because of the threat spills pose to drinking water.
- New Jersey still has not released a list ranking its most polluted sites, which was supposed to be published in 2010. Currently toxic sites are remediated when someone wants to redevelop them, and not necessarily based on the threat they pose to nearby communities.
