This week in birds - #649
A roundup of the week's news of birds and the environment : The American Bird Conservancy's Bird of the Week is another Hawaiian species, the ʻAlawī , a small, inconspicuous honeycreeper. There are four disjunct populations of the bird on the big island, Hawaii. Each of the populations is nonmigratory and show strong site fidelity throughout the year. *~*~*~* Light pollution at night is a big problem for birds during migration and there is a movement afoot to "take back the night" and change that. *~*~*~* Streaked Shearwaters spend much of their time in the air and a lot of that time they are pooping ! This behavior was accidentally discovered through video coverage that was meant to investigate something else altogether. *~*~*~* A partial dire wolf skull (a species that went extinct around the end of the last ice age) that is set to be auctioned is expected to bring as much as $30,000 . *~*~*~* Our current president is strongly anti-environment and is ...