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| Cedar Waxwing / Photo by Dave Menke (USFWS) |
- Some songbirds, like Great Tits and Blue Tits, search for food sources in the morning but wait until late afternoon to do most of their eating. This strategy seems to reduce their risk of being eaten by hawks during the day.
- Shifts in melatonin production may make urban birds respond to artificial lights as if they were an earlier dawn.
- Like Ivanpah, the Genesis Solar Project is causing bird deaths. Over 60 dead birds were found there in August, including 18 that are usually found in wetland habitats rather than the plant's desert location.
- New Caledonian Crows know how to use tools without having to guess.
- The autumn population of Barnacle Geese tripled in the eastern Gulf of Finland.
- A fossil bird from the Cretaceous had two tails.
- Dodos may have survived a few decades longer than generally thought.
- Maniraptora: Journal Club: Butterbutt biology: warblers, migration and mitochondria
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Three Swifts Probably Flew Non-Stop For 200 Days
- Myrmecos: How to recognize Apoidea
- Native Plant Wildlife Garden: Bumble Bee Life Cycle
- South Jersey Butterfly B/Log: One state, one year: 101 species
- The Corvid Blog: Mariana Crow
- Bug Eric: The Emerald Ash Borer Invades Colorado
- The Freiday Bird Blog: Fri-D: Molting Shorebirds
- Bird Ecology Study Group: A closer look at a juvenile male Emerald Dove
- Thanks to the shutdown, it looks like American scientists will not get to Antarctica in time for the spring research season. As the shutdown drags on, it is likely to reduce the National Weather Service's ability to predict upcoming storms.
- A misconception that climate change has slowed down has dominated reporting on the recent IPCC report.
- New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant had to shut down a day after it restarted.
- While IPCC reports include climate records for much of the world, the IPCC has had trouble getting reliable information on the state of glaciers in the Himalayas.
