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| Canada Geese / Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS |
- Wildlife trafficking is a threat to Scarlet Macaws even in places where they have some protection.
- A proposed pipeline project would cut through the Texas Hill Country and threaten habitat for the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler.
- Even though gamekeepers persecute raptors, the introduction of non-native gamebirds to Great Britain has boosted the populations of some avian predators.
- Data from pelagic birding expeditions shows that 13 seabird species are in decline off the coast of Australia.
- Different hummingbird species have used different genetic mutations to adapt to life at high altitudes.
- Government agencies hunted a single rat on St. Paul Island in Alaska because of the threat it posed to the island's seabird colonies.
- Some birds, like the Northern Pygmy-Owl, appear to have eyes on the backs of their heads.
- A new paper ranks islands where invasive species removal would do the most good.
- Proposed redevelopment of former landfill sites in the Meadowlands may threaten habitat for Savannah and Grasshopper Sparrows.
- Lead ammunition has been banned for hunting wildlife in California. The ban was put in place primarily to protect California Condors, which often suffer from lead poisoning, but it should protect human health as well.
- Fireworks in Point Pleasant were moved to protect nesting shorebirds.
- Jason Ward's Birds of North America series has a rival produced by Rolling Stone that seems to promote stereotypes. (Speaking of Birds of North America, the magazine that produced it got shut down, but the second season will still be released.)
- Urban Hawks: Governors Island Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron Nest
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies: Mansfield One-month Update—Where Are All the Birds??
- earthstar: 183/365 Pathetic, but not
- BirdNirdFoley Adventures: How I Accidentally Won the Yellow-throated Lottery.
- Chicago Ornithological Society: Dan's Feathursday Feature: Spotted Sandpiper
- Avian Hybrids: Genetic study of the Mallard complex reveals extensive hybridization with little recent gene flow
- Ranavirus has been found infecting tadpoles in Brazil's Atlantic Forest.
- Over the past several years, the Atlantic and Caribbean have experienced larger than normal Sargassum blooms.
- Deforestation has spiked, even in protected areas, since the election of Brazil's new government.
- Slingshot spiders can propel both themselves and their webs towards potential prey.
- The largest ash tree in the US is threatened by the emerald ash borer.
- The Ohio Dragonfly Survey has recorded 165 dragonfly and damselfly species in the state, including some uncommon ones.
- Southern Alaska is expected to break local heat records this weekend.
- Money for the private Independence Day celebration at the Lincoln Memorial was taken from the budgets of other national parks around the country.
- CBP officials ignored the advice of federal scientists when they waived environmental laws to build portions of the border wall in Texas.
- A report from 1989 predicted many of the effects of climate change that California has experienced in recent years.
