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| Eastern Bluebird / Photo by Bill Thompson (USFWS) |
- Hurricane Sandy wreaked a tremendous amount of destruction in New Jersey, but it also made Holgate and Little Beach Island more hospitable to Piping Plovers. This year the plovers produced 2.33 chicks per pair compared to 0.21 before the storm.
- EBird introduced a new feature to make it easier to find target species in a given area.
- The condor repopulation program in Colombia will use newer tracking devices that can be monitored more easily.
- Eating junk food gives gulls less of the nutrients they need.
- Volunteers are cleaning up a site near where Bald Eagles nest in Camden County, New Jersey.
- New Zealand's moa went extinct when the islands had an extremely low-density human population.
- Not Exactly Rocket Science: Contaminomics: Why Some Microbiome Studies May Be Wrong
- Extinction Countdown: Critically Endangered Gecko Discovered in Madagascar
- View from the Cape: Season's Passage
- On the Wing Photography: Ring-billed Gull Age Progression
- Bird Canada: Shorebirding - A Week at Weed Lake (Part 1)
- This week China and the United States signed an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. It calls for far more modest cuts than necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change. In the U.S., the cuts will be partially met by existing measures. Even if the cuts are small in the near term, it is a positive step because any serious long-term climate plan will require close cooperation between the U.S. and China.
- Either way, the agreement is likely to be a win for clean energy.
- Scientists surveying ants in New York City found remarkable species diversity.
- Jumping spiders seem to use a single neuron to process images coming from its two sets of eyes.
