Illustration: Delphine Lee Local weather change is predicted to make droughts longer, warmth waves extra frequent, and storms extra intense, and put tons of of North American chicken species at threat…
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The Weedkiller Dicamba Is Poisoning Wildlife Habitat. Will the EPA Lastly Act?
Noon, mid-June, mercury within the mid-90s. On the Arkansas Northeastern Faculty campus in Blytheville, Dan Scheiman friends by way of binoculars at a giant oak. Robins and cardinals flit close…
Fashionable and Social, Winter Waxwings Present a Great ID Problem
While you hear a refrain of high-pitched see! notes overhead, count on a great time: A rambunctious flock of waxwings is on its manner. Extremely social birds that seem to…
Reflecting on a Yr of Success
The Chook Migration Explorer tracks the threats confronted by Swallow-tailed Kites as they journey between the USA and South America. Photograph: Mac Stone As I write this, it has been…
A Acquainted Ring | Audubon
Roseate Spoonbills in flight over Florida Bay in 2011. Photograph: Mac Stone The Roseate Spoonbills had been behaving inexplicably. The birds ought to have been nesting all through Florida Bay, recovering…
Americas Flyways Initiative: birds, game-changers for saving nature
American Flamingos. Picture: James Fillmore/Audubon Pictures Awards Montreal, December 16, 2022 — There are at the least 559 Latin American and Caribbean chicken species liable to extinction. Sadly, since 1970,…
Birds, geckos thriving on two rodent-free Galápagos islands
Excellent news from the Galápagos Islands! Ten years after the elimination of invasive rodents from two of the archipelago’s islands, native birds and geckos are thriving. In late November, researchers…
The Clock Is Ticking on a Vacation Miracle for Wildlife—Will Congress Ship?
Nowhere else in the USA is the planet’s biodiversity disaster so vividly on show as in Hawaii. Its islands are residence to almost 500 of the nation’s 1,675 species listed…
Feds announce plan to battle avian malaria
The Division of the Inside introduced on Thursday a multiagency technique that seeks to forestall imminent extinction of Hawaiian forest birds imperiled by mosquito-borne avian malaria. The technique consists of greater than…
Belief Indigenous Land Stewards to Lead on International Conservation
Nice Horned Owl. Picture: Brandon Finnorn/Audubon Pictures Awards This month in Montreal, greater than 196 international locations are coming collectively at COP15 to finalize a brand new International Biodiversity Framework…