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Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (657+ words) Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped…...
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (807+ words) Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of the summer. But one corner remains conspicuously green. Here in south-west England, an animal that was made extinct in Britain in the…...
How we found a new transmissible cancer in bullhead catfish
3+ week, 3+ day ago (822+ words) For more than a decade, anglers on Lake Memphremagog — which straddles the Québec-Vermont border — have been catching brown bullhead catfish marked with distinctive black lesions. In 2019, scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife…...
How we found Haida Gwaii’s first marbled murrelet nest in more than 30 years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (900+ words) Scrambling through dense salal in the dark, weaving between the majestic western red cedars of northern Haida Gwaii, I could barely imagine where we were just days before — crossing Dixon Entrance off the coast in an open skiff, pushing head-on…...