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- The Hawaiian nesting sites for Band-rumped Storm-Petrels have finally been found in lava fields high up on Mauna Loa.
- Recent surveys showed that there are more King Island Scrubtits and King Island Brown Thornbills on King Island than previously thought. Both birds are critically endangered.
- American Robins are now migrating north in large numbers, so here is a look at how they have been seen over the centuries.
- Native trees are better than non-native trees for supporting migratory bird populations on shade coffee plantations.
- Flooded rice fields are a haven for Snow Geese and other migratory waterfowl.
- A new bird species, the Cream-eyed Bulbul, was discovered on Borneo.
- Waterbirds wintering in Ireland have declined 40% since the 1990s.
- Carrion Crows and Hooded Crows are very similar to each other genetically but have stayed distinct because of the importance of plumage in mate choice.
- Ten raptor species account for a third of all raptor research, and many species have been barely studied at all.
- Waterbirds in the Great Basin already have problems because of water diversion, and climate change may make things worse.
- Geolocators are revealing details of the Arctic Tern's impressive annual migration.
- Feather mites eat fungi and bacteria that grow on birds' feathers.
- Birdchick: A Legend of Birding is Gone
- Avian Hybrids: A Mitochondrial Mystery: Why are there two deeply divergent lineages in the Savannah Sparrow?
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: The Magic of a Blackbird
- awkward botany: Tiny Plants: Idahoa
- Mark D. Scherz, MSc: Honey, evolution shrank the frogs!
- avesrares: Crossbill call types in the western Palearctic – a birder’s perspective
- Birding Dude: Cackling Goose Study at Van Cortlandt Park Bronx Co.
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Mountain Leaf-warbler
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: Crow vs Raven
- Backyard and Beyond: Incoming
- feathers and thoughts: A well-named bird
- Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography: Singing Male Horned Lark And The Great Salt Lake
- Bd (short for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has caused the decline of at least 501 amphibian species and 90 of those have gone extinct because of it. The flesh-eating fungus most likely spread through the wildlife trade and infects any new amphibian species it contacts.
- Losing any endangered species to extinction (or extirpation) can affect the rest of the ecosystem.
- Light pollution affects birds and insects, so it should not be surprising that it also affects bats.
- Sand mining seems to have caused the extinction of a tree species.
- The Interior Nominee, David Bernhardt intervened to block a report on how certain pesticides affect endangered species.
- The use of chemical dispersants to clean up oil spills can harm people and wildlife, but the EPA continues to resist improving safety standards.
- A majority of urban forest managers do not have plans that take climate change into consideration.
- Much of Louisiana's coast is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico because levees prevent the normal sedimentation from flooding at the mouth of the Mississippi.
- The recent public lands bill increased the size of Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Parks.
- New Jersey is suing DuPont and other companies to clean up contamination from PFAS and other toxic chemicals. Cleanups are needed in Pompton Lakes, Sayreville, and other towns.
- Coastal flooding along the Jersey Shore has gotten worse because of sea level rise, but it is also exacerbated by the coast's dense development.
- A company wants to build a natural gas pipeline under Raritan Bay.
- New Jersey's DEP wants to hide its data on bears because of protests against bear hunting.
