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| Cedar Waxwing / Photo by Grayson Smith/USFWS |
- The Audubon project Survival By Degrees shows how bird ranges will change as the climate warms. Among other things, many state birds will no longer reside in the states that claimed them.
- A captive-breeding program for the endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow recently released 100 sparrows back into the wild.
- A project in California is testing whether scrub jays can help reforest burned areas after recent wild fires.
- In Uganda, a conservation group is getting communities involved in protecting wetlands that Gray-crowned Cranes depend on for survival.
- Conservationists are tracking critically endangered Chinese Crested Terns by satellite to learn more about the species and prevent it from going extinct.
- New York City's new building code will save many of the birds that migrate through the city.
- A wild fire in Western Australia spared the main stronghold of the endangered Western Ground Parrot, though some habitat was burned.
- A recent survey of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas found Bahama Parrots and other expected species had survived Hurricane Dorian. News on the Bahama Nuthatch will have to wait until surveys in the spring.
- Feathered Photography: The Pied-billed Grebe And The Crayfish
- The Meadowlands Nature Blog: Don Torino’s Life in the Meadowlands: The American Tree Sparrow – Long Distance Visitor to the Meadowlands
- mocosocoBirds: The 84th Boonton Christmas Bird Count Report – 2019
- 10,000 Birds: We had a Christmas Bird Count
- Natural Newstead: Hanging basket
- MaghrebOrnitho: First record of Moltoni's Warbler in Algeria
- Florida boaters killed a record 129 manatees this year despite protection efforts.
- In addition to expanding into eastern North America, coyotes may soon expand their range into South America.
- The Delta smelt was already doing poorly because of overuse of water and recent droughts, and regulatory changes may make the problem worse.
- Removal of some obsolete dams has boosted the restoration of Ukraine's portion of the Danube River Delta.
- Oil companies linked to oil spills during Hurricane Katrina have largely avoided accountability for cleaning up those spills.
- A bill in the New Jersey legislature would protect all of Liberty State Park from development, but a billionaire wants the bill amended so that he can expand his golf course into the park.
- A heat wave linked to climate change is hurting livestock and wildlife in Australia.
