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- Migrating warblers with more body mass tend to sleep facing forward, while thinner ones sleep with their heads tucked, which saves energy but also makes them more vulnerable.
- Conservationists are playing recordings to attract seabirds to a protected breeding site on Kauai. There and elsewhere, experiments have shown the importance of soundscapes for breeding birds.
- Half of the plants pollinated by sunbirds are also useful to humans.
- Late winter is a good time to clean out nestboxes for birds to use in the spring.
- Here are some suggestions for responsible bird feeding.
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies: Field Guide to March 2020
- Arachnofiles: Arachnews: March 2, 2020
- Avian Hybrids: Babblers provide evidence for “speciation cycles” in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains
- incidental naturalist: Where to see a Woodcock in Manhattan
- 10,000 Birds: Pirates of the Caribbean
- Spring is starting significantly earlier than usual in North America this year due to an unusually warm winter. The downside is that it could disrupt the food web and other ecological relationships.
- Insect declines are also disrupting food webs, and the best solution is to protect or restore the habitats that insects need.
- As their population increases, cougars are coming into closer contact with people.
- Six new gecko species were recently described from Australia. Even though some of them are common, they avoided notice because they looked similar to other species.
- A virus causes honey bees to start foraging too early.
- Mexico's cloud forests are home to significant biodiversity and need protection.
- Long-horned Ticks have been found in Virginia.
- While fossil fuel companies are finally acknowledging the problem of climate change, they intend to keep producing fossil fuels for as long as they can.
- One way that they can stay profitable is by turning fossil fuels into plastics.
- The Trump administration is creating more limits on what kind of science can be used to support regulations.
- Drilling for oil under the Congo basin would mean draining the largest tropical peatlands and the release of a massive amount of carbon dioxide.
- A new building in Philadelphia is designed to be its own solar energy plant.
- An illustrator created posters for national parks based on their worst online reviews.
