:: The government of Alberta is considering a Sandhill Crane hunt for the autumn of 2015
:: The Yurok Tribe Wildlife Program, the Ventana Wildlife Society, and several federal and state government agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward reintroducing captive-bred California Condors to the north coast region
:: A Saudi prince poached more than 2,100 internationally protected Houbara Bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Pakistan, during which he also hunted in protected areas
:: Birds are continuing to die at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in San Bernardino County,
:: In February, Oxford University evolutionary biologist Joseph Tobias and colleagues published a study in Nature questioning how widespread character displacement is in nature, focusing on Ovenbirds.
:: The California Department of Food and Agriculture is working with the USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service to develop an anthraquinone-based bird repellent to minimize damage to crops such as almonds, lettuce, melons, and ginseng.
:: The continuing California drought is endangering fish and bird populations, including the Tricolored Blackbird, and causing mortality in Foothill Pine trees.
:: There’s a new penguin cam at Antarctica’s Yalour Islands.
:: 28 years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers have found that birds in the exclusion zone are adapting to, and possibly benefiting from, long-term exposure to radiation.
Great posts in birding blogs this week:
:: From Jacob at The Eyrie: Bird Courtship
:: From Dan at Bird Canada: Spring Scouting at Frank Lake
:: From Josiah at Birds in Your Backyard: Spring has Sprung (Part 4)
:: From Kirby at Birding is Fun: Pledge to Fledge — Every Day!
:: From Larry at The Brownstone Birding Blog: The Secret City Of Great Blue Herons
:: From Rick at the ABA Blog: Wader Quest in South Australia
:: From Eileen at Viewing Nature with Eileen: Saturday Walk
:: From Jeff at NeoVista Birding: Coming Soon: New Generation of Cooper’s Hawks