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| Great Blue Heron / Photo by Keenan Adams/USFWS |
- A study that requires collecting seabirds in the Bering Sea so far has shown that the birds are struggling to find their preferred foods.
- Meanwhile, Short-tailed Shearwaters were two weeks late arriving to their southern breeding grounds in Australia, and they arrived in unusually low numbers. This follows a mass mortality event for the species in the Bering Sea.
- The Rufous-headed Hornbill has been the subject of a conservation campaign that focuses on teaching schoolchildren about the endangered bird.
- South Africa is creating safe zones for vultures to try to save the threatened birds, which often die from eating poisoned bait.
- Singapore is hosting a pair of Philippine Eagles that are part of a captive-breeding program.
- Wisdom the Laysan Albatross returned to Midway Atoll last week.
- A white Bearded Vulture is being seen in the Alps, where that color morph does not usually occur.
- The weeks preceding Thanksgiving are full of news stories on Wild Turkeys, such as one that chases cars in Haddon Heights.
- A wildlife manager explains why introducing Wild Turkeys to Newfoundland would be a bad idea.
- It is a shame that Ocellated Turkeys only seem to get talked about around Thanksgiving.
- Wing Beat: How Did a Volcanic Eruption Affect Andean Condors?
- Avian Hybrids: Multispecies hybridization among Thrushes (genus Catharus)
- ornithologi.com: Published in the Journal of Raptor Research: Defining Raptors and Birds of Prey
- Backyard and Beyond: Scapegoat
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies: Celebrating Birder Broker's Successful First Year
- On The Wing Photography: West Desert Juniper Titmouse Feeding On Juniper Berry Seeds
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush foraging
- The Prairie Ecologist: A Surprising Winter Hideout
- 10,000 Birds: Uganda’s Billion Dollar Bird: The Shoebill
- Arachnofiles: Arachnews: October 2019
- A blue whale's heart can beat remarkably slowly to conserve oxygen when it dives according to new observations.
- Recent expeditions show that vaquitas are still reproducing even as their numbers are extremely low.
- A study showed that coastal fog in California pulls mercury out of the ocean and deposits it in coastal mountain ranges, which creates problems for mountain lions and other wildlife at the top of the food chain.
- Habitat restoration may not be enough to save Alberta's caribou in areas with energy development.
- An international commission will lower catch limits for bigeye tunas, but the new limit may still be too high and ignores issues with bycatch.
- An Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves was finally formally described as a new species.
- New Jersey acquired several large properties in Cumberland County that will expand a wildlife management area by 5,500 acres.
- Commerical cranberry growers in the New Jersey Pinelands need to balance crop production with environmental sustainability to keep growing cranberries.
- Global uses of coal-fired electricity may finally fall this year due to reduced demand in India and China.
- Even so, atmospheric greenhouse gases hit a new high in 2018, and global emissions must fall by half by 2030 to have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
- Arctic permafrost is thawing faster and contains more carbon than expected, which could make climate change much worse.
- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by 30% over the past year and is expected to get worse.
- The explosion of a chemical plant in Texas is a reminder than undermining environmental and safety regulations has real consequences.
- Last week a climate change protest disrupted the annual Harvard-Yale football game; students and other attendees sought to pressure the universities to divest their fossil fuel investments.
- Activists protested the destruction of habitat along the border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
- The mayor of Pittsburgh came out in opposition to a proposed factory to make plastics from fracked gas.
- London is dropping charges against at least 105 Extinction Rebellion protestors who were arrested last month.
- An education center on the Chesapeake Bay has been forced to close because of rising water levels.
