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- A new study estimates that 6.8 million birds die every year by colliding with communications towers during migration.
- Great Tits are more likely to mob predators if they hear alarm calls from other tits they know well.
- Some bowerbirds cultivate fruit to decorate their bowers.
- Birds with red, orange, or chestnut feathers are more likely to suffer from cataracts, which could affect their ability to hunt or forage.
- EBird New Jersey has an article on finding and identifying Barn Owls in the state.
- Scientists found that Great Tits respond to longer days at the genetic level to prepare for breeding.
- The Red-tailed Hawk nest on a ledge at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has three hatchlings this spring.
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Neurons in a pigeon’s brain respond to magnetic fields
- The Drinking Bird: Appreciating Subtle Sparrows
- Bird Ecology Study Group: A white-eye entangled in a spider’s web
- BugBlog: On the odd life cycle of bumblebees
- Compound Eye: Experimenting with off-camera light (sawfly edition)
- Extinction Countdown: Critically Endangered Colombian Parrot Doubles Its Protected Habitat
- Bug Girl's Blog: Cochineal Taxonomy Fails
- This month 61% of the lower 48 states (including New Jersey) had drought conditions; the situation is especially bad in the West because the Rocky Mountains received 70% less snowfall than usual this winter.
- Speaking of western states, The Seattle Times has photos of the land behind the former Elwha Dam, which was destroyed recently as part of an ecological restoration project.
- Mexico became only the second country to pass a comprehensive climate change bill.
- Scientists in Russia found an all-white orca living in the wild.
- A research program discovered bright purple crabs near the island of Palawan in the Philippines. The crabs are believed to be endemic to the island.
- Here is a gallery of rare British butterflies and a gallery of rare British wildflowers.
