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« Reply #2910 on: September 13, 2020, 07:05:27 PM »
Woodpeckers wage war over prized breeding sites

https://www.france24.com/en/20200908-woodpeckers-wage-war-over-prized-breeding-sites



Tracking the warriors and spectators of acorn woodpecker wars - https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)31098-8.pdf

Wandering woodpeckers: foray behavior in a social bird - https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2943
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« Reply #2911 on: September 13, 2020, 07:17:29 PM »
Solar tower in Northern Cape singeing birds, ecologist warns

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-09-10-solar-tower-in-northern-cape-singeing-birds-ecologist-warns/

SA study busts US claims that solar systems kill one bird per minute

https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/environment/2357026/sa-study-busts-us-claims-that-solar-systems-kill-one-bird-per-minute/

Impact of solar towers on birds investigated - http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=7666







Flamingoes in one of the evaporation ponds at Khi Solar One, where a 205-metre solar tower is surrounded by 4,200 heliostats.


The 205-metre concentrated solar power tower at Khi Solar One has a turbine at the top and high-pressure water pipes inside.

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« Reply #2912 on: September 13, 2020, 07:39:49 PM »
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Huge decline in songbirds linked to common insecticide

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/widely-used-pesticide-makes-birds-lose-weight/

Common insecticide threatens survival of wild, migrating birds

https://www.ehn.org/common-insecticide-threatens-survival-of-wild-migrating-birds-2640322064.html

Controversial insecticides shown to threaten survival of wild birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190912140456.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Abstract: A neonicotinoid insecticide reduces fueling and delays migration in songbirds

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6458/1177


White-throated sparrows like this one were found in a study to lose weight quickly after eating seeds treated with neonicotinoids, the most common insecticide used in the U.S.
Photograph by Education Images/ Universal Images Group/ Getty Images

More info: Report Shows Pesticides are the Leading Cause of Steep Decline in US Bird Species

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/report-shows-pesticides-are-the-leading-cause-of-steep-decline-in-us-bird-species/

Neonicotinoids and decline in bird biodiversity in the United States - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-0582-x
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« Reply #2913 on: September 14, 2020, 04:21:10 PM »
New tracking devices to aid in continuing study of black vultures

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/378032/new-tracking-devices-aid-continuing-study-black-vultures

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« Reply #2914 on: September 15, 2020, 04:17:47 PM »
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« Reply #2916 on: September 16, 2020, 02:31:09 PM »
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'Hundreds of thousands' of migratory birds dead in New Mexico

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/516511-hundreds-of-thousands-of-migratory-birds-dead-in-new-mexico

In New Mexico, the Birds Are Dying at Alarming Rates

https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/new-mexicos-migratory-bird-die-offs-are-unprecedented.html



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Cause of New Mexico bird deaths sought

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/cause-of-new-mexico-bird-deaths-sought/article_65c57752-f69b-11ea-957e-c711f53ea4d4.html?ct=t(RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN)


Bird migration maps collected from weather radar late Sept. 8 and early Sept. 9 show large amounts of birds leaving the Pacific Northwest and flying southeast toward the Rocky Mountains.
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« Reply #2917 on: September 16, 2020, 02:35:00 PM »
Bird migration forecasts in real-time

https://birdcast.info/




WOW!! Just look at the Mississippi Flyway!! :o

Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts.
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« Reply #2919 on: September 16, 2020, 04:02:23 PM »
Divergence in plumage, voice, and morphology indicates speciation in Rufous-capped Warblers (Basileuterus rufifrons)

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa029/Divergence-in-plumage-voice-and-morphology-indicates-speciation-in-Rufous/10.1093/auk/ukaa029.short

Wildfires and mass effects of dispersal disrupt the local uniformity of type I songs of Hermit Warblers in California

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa031/Wildfires-and-mass-effects-of-dispersal-disrupt-the-local-uniformity/10.1093/auk/ukaa031.short
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« Reply #2920 on: September 16, 2020, 04:03:07 PM »
Books:

Sixty-first Supplement to the American Ornithological Society?s Check-list of North American Birds

https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/137/3/ukaa030/5865308

Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals

https://academic.oup.com/auk/article-abstract/137/3/ukaa020/5817068?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Contributions to The History of North American Ornithology, Volume IV

https://academic.oup.com/auk/article-abstract/137/3/ukaa025/5836588?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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The shape of avian eggs: Assessment of a novel metric for quantifying eggshell conicality

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa021/The-shape-of-avian-eggs--Assessment-of-a-novel/10.1093/auk/ukaa021.short

Breeding performance of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) does not decline among older age classes

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa022/Breeding-performance-of-Common-Terns-Sterna-hirundo-does-not-decline/10.1093/auk/ukaa022.short

An early Oligocene stem Galbulae (jacamars and puffbirds) from southern France, and the position of the Paleogene family Sylphornithidae

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa023/An-early-Oligocene-stem-Galbulae-jacamars-and-puffbirds-from-southern/10.1093/auk/ukaa023.short
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Conservative plumage masks extraordinary phylogenetic diversity in the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex of the humid Andes

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa009/Conservative-plumage-masks-extraordinary-phylogenetic-diversity-in-the-Grallaria-rufula/10.1093/auk/ukaa009.short

Climate change and maladaptive wing shortening in a long-distance migratory bird

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa012/Climate-change-and-maladaptive-wing-shortening-in-a-long-distance/10.1093/auk/ukaa012.short

Geographic variation in the duets of the Rufous-naped Wren (Campylorhynchus rufinucha) complex

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa015/Geographic-variation-in-the-duets-of-the-Rufous-naped-Wren/10.1093/auk/ukaa015.short

Mitochondrial genomes and thousands of ultraconserved elements resolve the taxonomy and historical biogeography of the Euphonia and Chlorophonia finches (Passeriformes: Fringillidae)

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa016/Mitochondrial-genomes-and-thousands-of-ultraconserved-elements-resolve-the-taxonomy/10.1093/auk/ukaa016.full

Does habitat partitioning by sympatric plovers affect nest survival?

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa018/Does-habitat-partitioning-by-sympatric-plovers-affect-nest-survival/10.1093/auk/ukaa018.short

Estimating egg mass?body mass relationships in birds

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-137/issue-3/ukaa019/Estimating-egg-massbody-mass-relationships-in-birds/10.1093/auk/ukaa019.short
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« Reply #2923 on: September 17, 2020, 12:11:00 PM »
Understanding the Risks of Rodent Poisons to Birds of Prey

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/understanding-risks-rodent-poisons-birds-prey

Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure and toxicosis in four species of birds of prey in Massachusetts, USA, 2012-2016, in relation to use of rodenticides by pest management professionals  - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28669046/

Continued Anticoagulant Rodenticide Exposure of Red‐tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) in the Northeastern USA with an Evaluation of Serum for Biomonitoring - https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.4853


?In my 2017 paper, 97 percent of the hawks tested were positive, which is very high. But still, 100 feels like a much more dramatic number," said Maureen Murray, V03, director of Tufts Wildlife Clinic. Photo: Anna Miller/Tufts University
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« Reply #2924 on: September 17, 2020, 07:06:26 PM »
Climate Solutions - How trucking eels is reviving a river

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/09/17/climate-change-assisted-migration/?arc404=true&utm_campaign=wp_energy_and_environment&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_green

Moving on assisted migration - https://www.nature.com/articles/climate.2008.86

Managed Relocation: Reducing the Risk of Biological Invasion - https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/isac_managed_relocation_white_paper.pdf

A Framework for Assessing the Feasibility of Native Fish Conservation Translocations: Applications to Threatened Bull Trout - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02755947.2016.1146177







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