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| Red Knot / Photo Credit: Gregory Breese/USFWS |
- Spring migration brings warblers, but it also brings more difficult birds like Empidonax flycatchers. Here is a guide to distinguishing Willow and Alder Flycatchers by voice.
- Window strikes kill millions of birds a year, so conservationists are looking for ways to make windows more visible to birds.
- Results are in from last weekend's World Series of Birding in New Jersey. Here are the award winners (pdf) and team standings (pdf). I hope to have a post on my team's run soon.
- A study linked differences in plumage and behavior among different morphs of male Ruff to genetics rather than environmental factors.
- British conservationists are concerned about nonnative waterfowl like Egyptian Geese and Ruddy Ducks becoming establishing in wetlands reserves and crowding out native waterfowl.
- A study found that 94% of Cory's Shearwaters on the Catalan coast have ingested plastics.
- A very interesting bird found in Ontario looks like either a hybrid or an aberrant Dickcissel.
- Bridge construction in California may lead to long term decline in local Cliff Swallow populations.
- PhotoNaturalist: Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Footprints
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Why Octopus Arms Don’t Get Tangled
- View from the Cape: World Series Ups and Downs
- 10,000 Birds: Mountain Swainson’s are the Best Swainson’s
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Whimbrels Bathing and Preening
- Part of the West Antarctic ice sheet is collapsing, and its collapse appears to be unstoppable. Here is an image showing where the movement is happening.
- Loss of saltmarsh cordgrass may be linked to a decline in predators from overfishing.
- Birders should consider studying moths.
- Spring is wildflower season in New Jersey.
- Some environmentalists try to control invasive species by eating them.
- It looks like the wolf known as OR-7 may be breeding (in Oregon rather than California).
