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| Trumpeter Swan / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Helmeted Woodpeckers nest in natural cavities caused by decay.
- One of the first books about birdwatching was Birds through an Opera Glass by Florence Merriam.
- Both short-distance and long-distance migratory birds are migrating earlier in the spring, and migration lasts longer than it used to.
- Scientists studying Red Knots attempted to estimate the probability of resighting errors of color-marked birds.
- Bonelli's Eagles would benefit from less disturbance in national parks.
- Maine is trying to figure out whether the "chickadee" listed as its state bird should be a Boreal Chickadee or a Black-capped Chickadee.
- An African Gray Parrot passed an advanced intelligence test.
- Zebra Finches with more siblings tend to be more sociable as adults.
- Avian Hybrids: Adaptation in Parrotbills fueled by standing genetic variation
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies: Just Released: VCE and Colleagues Publish a Groundbreaking Study of Avian Nesting Success on Hispaniola
- Living Alongside Wildlife: Antarctica: a Continent at a Crossroads --- Guest Photo Essay ---
- RealClimate: The best case for worst case scenarios
- whitehorsepress: What Caused the Environmental Impacts of the Oil Sands Industry?
- Bug Eric: The Sticky Truths About Claims of Disappearing Insects
- Corvid Research: The bird of many names
- ScienceBorealis.ca Blog: Where the (Re)Wild Things Are
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Collared Kingfisher caught a juvenile sunbird
- iNaturalist.org: iNat Photos Used to Study Correlation Between Dragonfly Wing Coloration and Temperature
- Birding the day away !!: Capercaillie ~ Latvia - Feb '19
- awkward botany: Seed Oddities: Vivipary
- The Prairie Ecologist: The Boneheaded Ecologist and the Zombie Fly
- Viceroys acquire a bitter taste in areas where there are no Monarchs or Queens to mimic.
- All of the animals examined at the bottom of the Mariana Trench have plastic fibers in their guts.
- Endangered animals keep getting killed by rodenticides (through either deliberate or careless use of the poisons).
- A new study places horseshoe crabs within the arachnids rather than related to the arachnids.
- Gynandromorphs (like the Northern Cardinal recently in the news) are actually not that rare and come in many variations.
- Ocean County purchased 8,000 acres of the New Jersey Pinelands for preservation as a wilderness area.
- A new study argues that clouds will disappear faster in a warmer world than many models estimate, which would result in climate change having worse results.
- California's largest county is considering banning large-scale solar projects on its unincorporated land.
- Restoring one of Louisiana's coastal islands will temporarily protect wetlands from further erosion.
- One the controversial pipelines that was supposed to be built through the New Jersey Pinelands is in doubt because the power plant it was supposed to serve will not reopen.
- Washington DC is attempting to use green infrastructure to prevent raw sewage from overflowing into one of Rock Creek's tributaries during storms.
- The Sea of Galilee is drying up because of long-term drought and overuse of its water.
