Dendroica

Photo credit: Caridad Bojorquez/Proteus Gowanus The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center houses a unique collection of records about avian ...

Like in other cities, buildings in Philadelphia's Center City have reflective glass surfaces that fool birds so that birds die in window...

Piping Plover chick / USFWS Photo A long and bitter process has resulted in a new regulation governing off-road vehicle (ORV) use at Ca...

Hooded Crow in Berlin / Photo by pelican A hunting group in Germany that calls itself the "Crowbusters" is trying to kill as ...

Last year, thousands of blackbirds died on New Year's Eve in Beebe, Arkansas. This year it happened again , though in smaller numbers....

At one time or another, we have probably all seen a bird hampered by fishing line, with the line wrapped around its legs or tangled elsewher...

Salton Sea in California is well known among birders for its breeding populations of waterbird species and the migratory birds each year. Be...

In yesterday's Loose Feathers , I linked to a report on an incident in which Hungarian officials seized a shipment of about 10,000 illeg...

Stone culvert / Photo by Wikipedia user Valerius Tygart Researchers in Maryland studied whether and how animals (including birds) were u...

For a long time, green building standards, as codified by the LEED program, focused on a building's energy use, often to the exclusion o...

Oscar Lake in the Northwest Territories ©D. Langhorst, Ducks Unlimited Three conservation organizations (Nature Canada, NRDC, and the B...

If you have been following weather news in North America, you may be aware that Texas is in the midst of a prolonged drought that is extreme...

Since the first mass bird deaths were reported on New Year's Day, a new round of proposed explanations has accompanied each additional b...

New Year's Eve in one Arkansas town was the occasion for a mass die-off of Red-winged Blackbirds – about 5,000 by most accounts. Since t...

Someone in the San Francisco Bay Area has apparently been capturing gulls and putting beer can collars around their necks . As you might e...

Ever since US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson River after hitting a flock of geese in 2009, aviation officials and the U.S. D...

A wind farm has been proposed for a site within Puerto Rico's Karso del Sur Important Bird Area . The windfarm was proposed for constru...

Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2062 , the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Penalty and Enforcement Act, by a voi...

A new study of Greater Sage Grouse predicts that continuing energy development along current lines would lead to a 7-19% reduction in the G...

Here is a brief update on the Syncrude incident from May 2008. If you remember, 1,603 wild ducks landed in a retention pond holding the tox...