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| Turkey and Black Vultures / photo by me |
- Many birds fly long distances over water during migration; some of them never make it to shore and fall prey to sharks.
- As the Salton Sea's water level decreases and its salinity increases, the lake is losing much of its bird life.
- A fishing moratorium around Robben Island in South Africa showed how human activities affect penguins.
- Wading birds are nesting in the Everglades in the highest numbers since the 1940s.
- A new study identifies fishing hotspots where seabirds may be in danger.
- Bald Eagle chicks in a transmission tower nest in Neshanic Station were banded and given health checks.
- Captive-bred Crested Ibises were released into the wild in South Korea for the first time in decades.
- Tests on captive birds suggest that ravens are affected by the moods of other ravens.
- Avian Hybrids: Genomic analyses point to speciation with gene flow in the Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Black-thighed Falconet – juveniles/family
- Snapshots of Nature: Small Owl in the Big City
- 10,000 Birds: Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part Three: Sweet, Sweet Sage
- Bug Eric: World Bee Day....A Little "Bee"hind
- ABA Blog: How to Know the Birds: No. 8, Why Do Carolina Wrens Sound So Loud?
- Birding New Jersey: Not a Mystery Bird — Unless….
- Backyard and Beyond: A.C. Bent & Co. on Raptors
- Natural Newstead: A ‘wave’ of flames
- Dan Tallman’s Bird Blog: MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Invasive earthworms are changing the ecology of the boreal forest, in ways that might affect climate change.
- A new study emphasizes the harm that the proposed Pebble Mine would cause to salmon in the Nushagak watershed; salmon use the entire watershed and spawn in different locations from year to year depending on the conditions.
- A study of feral cats on New Zealand's Ponui Island found that they eat mostly rodents but also many native birds.
- The biodiversity of coral reefs is fueled partly by small fish that live very short lives.
- Harvester ants demolish spider webs to free trapped coworkers.
- Native plants can recover on their own when invasive plants are thoroughly removed.
- Oil does not clog baleen, but plastic does.
- Carbon offsets are not working as claimed: the gains are either quickly reversed or never materialize in the first place.
- Flooding along the Mississippi has revived a proposal for a pumping project that would damage wetlands used by migratory birds.
- The EPA is canceling the registrations for a dozen neonicotinoid pesticides due to the harm they cause to bees. The decision was part of a legal settlement.
- John Delaney, a Democratic candidate for president, proposes to address climate change with a carbon tax and a carbon capture program. Jay Inslee still has the most detailed climate change plan among the Democratic candidates.
- Floods in Cumbria in 2009 and 2015 were the worst in over 500 years.
- A proposal for a natural gas compressor station in Massachusetts did not include complete pollution data.
- A recent House hearing showed that climate change denialism extends to the biodiversity crisis as well.
- One proposal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions includes shorter workweeks.
- Plant hardiness zones are creeping northward with climate change.
