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« Reply #2115 on: January 24, 2019, 02:23:28 PM »
How male dragonflies adapt wing color to temperature

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123082227.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


One of the male blue dasher dragonflies with darker wings.
Credit: Michael Moore/Case Western Reserve University
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« Reply #2116 on: January 24, 2019, 02:24:49 PM »
Conservation efforts help some rare birds more than others

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123105814.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Illinois Natural History Survey avian ecologist Bryan Reiley and his colleagues study how voluntary conservation programs on private lands influence populations of rare birds in Illinois.
Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky
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« Reply #2117 on: January 26, 2019, 04:40:50 PM »
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« Reply #2118 on: January 26, 2019, 04:43:21 PM »
More than ruffled feathers: Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/maf-mtr012319.php

Abstract: Sub-lethal exposure to lead is associated with heightened aggression in an urban songbird

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718345017



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« Reply #2119 on: January 26, 2019, 05:25:46 PM »
The World Outdoors: Roberta Bondar connects view from space to bird migration

https://lfpress.com/travel/the-world-outdoors-roberta-bondar-connects-view-from-space-to-bird-migration

Video: CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques talks about Earth observation from space with Roberta Bondar and Jenni Sidey-Gibbons for the Exploring Earth activity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888SxKcJ6Go

Protecting Space for Birds

https://www.therobertabondarfoundation.org/other-activities/research-and-publications/psfb/




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« Reply #2120 on: January 26, 2019, 05:27:13 PM »
From Sonoma County to Antarctica, Point Blue studies climate change through birds

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/specialsections/sonomagives/9080921-181/from-sonoma-county-to-antarctica?sba=AAS


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« Reply #2121 on: January 29, 2019, 02:55:55 PM »
Why a Border Wall Could Mean Trouble for Wildlife

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/climate/border-wall-wildlife.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_sc_20190129&nl=science-times&nl_art=7&nlid=75212545emc%3Dedit_sc_20190129&ref=headline&te=1

Article: Nature Divided, Scientists United: US?Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational Conservation

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/10/740/5057517


The five Borderlands Conservation Hotspots identified by Defenders of Wildlife, which highlight areas of high biological diversity and significant investment in conservation land and projects. See Peters and Clark (2018) for more information.
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« Reply #2122 on: January 29, 2019, 03:21:11 PM »
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« Reply #2123 on: January 29, 2019, 03:22:13 PM »
Without habitat management, small land parcels do not protect birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190122171331.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Some of the birds that were captured and banded in the research included, top row, from left, Carolina wren and chestnut-sided warbler and, bottom row from left, Baltimore oriole, bluejay and common yellowthroat.
Credit: Julian Avery
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« Reply #2124 on: January 29, 2019, 04:14:18 PM »
Risk-benefit considerations in evaluating commensal anticoagulant rodenticide impacts to wildlife

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7w63h1wp

U.S. EPA reregistration eligibility decision (RED) for the rodenticide cluster: overview of the regulatory process, response of registrants and stakeholders, and implications for agricultural and urban rodent control

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j4085xz
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« Reply #2125 on: January 30, 2019, 08:03:04 PM »
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« Reply #2126 on: January 30, 2019, 08:35:24 PM »
The birds who seek out Goldilocks fires

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-birds-goldilocks.html

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« Reply #2127 on: January 30, 2019, 08:36:39 PM »
GPS-GSM technology for the long journey of the Egyptian vulture, an endangered species

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-gps-gsm-technology-journey-egyptian-vulture.html


Marking the six Egyptian vultures with GPS-GSM emitters allows the tracking of their movements and use of space. Credit: Conservation Biology Group (University of Barcelona-IRBio)

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« Reply #2128 on: January 30, 2019, 09:27:24 PM »
American Wind Wildlife Institute 10th Anniversary Documentary

https://vimeo.com/304420920

NWCC: Scientific Advances Toward Wind-Wildlife Solutions Presented at 12th Wind Wildlife Research Meeting in St. Paul

https://www.nationalwind.org/scientific-advances-toward-wind-wildlife-solutions-presented-at-12th-wind-wildlife-research-meeting-in-st-paul/

AWWI: Presentation and Poster Abstracts

https://awwi.app.box.com/s/4wsmluksr5fi5u1ipq293utwk8zqv6e9/file/388536682922

USFWS: MidAmerican Energy Company Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for Wind Energy Facilities in Iowa

https://www.fws.gov/midwest/rockisland/te/MidAmericanHCP.html

Analyses: Ten Years of the Compensatory Mitigation Rule: Reflections on Progress and Opportunities and Solid Ground: Using Mitigation to Achieve Greater Predictability, Faster Project Approval, and Better Conservation Outcomes

https://www.eli.org/sites/default/files/elr/featuredarticles/Jan19FA.pdf

Study: Tracking Movements of Threatened Migratory rufaRed Knots in U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Waters

https://espis.boem.gov/Final%20Reports/BOEM_2018-046.pdf

Abstract: (SYMPOSIA-05) "Big Data" Approach to Understanding Wildlife Collision Risk at Wind Farms

https://midwestfishwildlifeconferen2019.sched.com/event/INZV/symposia-05-big-data-approach-to-understanding-wildlife-collision-risk-at-wind-farms#

Defenders of Wildlife: Celebrating a Decade of Wind-Wildlife Collaboration

https://medium.com/wild-without-end/american-wind-wildlife-institute-celebration-8be05c50cbd3

USGS: GenEst - A Generalized Estimator of Mortality (software download)

https://www.usgs.gov/software/genest-a-generalized-estimator-mortality


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