ClimateCounts scores - how big companies are faring

If you go to Climate Counts.org, you can find out here how companies are faring in their attempt to deal with climate change, reduce their emissions, etc.

the missing parts of my education

To truly understand environmental problems at both a local and global scale, there were certain pieces of conceptual understanding that I did not have during my undergraduate and postgraduate education. I am chiefly referring here to economics - in particular to environmental or ecological economics. I am currently attempting to address that conceptual lack by going back to the foundations of this discipline. Right now, I am reading a book that provides a foundation in those concepts I previously had missed. I recommend: Beyond Growth, by economist Herman E. Daly. 1996. Beacon Press, Boston. Read it, and you will possibly come to a similar conclusion: solutions to environmental problems without accompanying and integrated economic solutions are not complete solutions.

Conservation plans for 5 North American shorebird species

Conservation plans for these 5 North American shorebird species

American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

are available at the website of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network.

Their most recent online newsletter is at this link.

loon migration study

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I seldom see loons except in fall migration - I just don't travel to northern WI much. But I am VERY interested in seeing them in fall.

The folks at USGS in LaCrosse have a valuable ongoing study, with links to results at this url:
http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/terrestrial/migratory_birds/loons/main.html

With progressively milder Novembers and milder early Decembers, I expect the earlier CBCs (those that fall before the last week of December) along the lakeshore to gradually produce more loon records. We'll see...

Alternative Birding News for November 30, 2009

The Boreal Songbird Initiative has a set of factsheets on a wide variety of conservation topics, available at this link.

Also available are a set of PowerPoint presentations on related topics, found here.

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Bill Hilton's hummingbird research project has recent news here about the RTHU in 2009.

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Updates from the Global Raptor Information Network are found at this link.

new items from the Boreal Songbird Initiative, PRBO, and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

There's always some news of interest at the Boreal Songbird Initiative.

and more from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

A recent paper from staff at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is available online:
Breeding latitude and timing of spring migration in songbirds crossing the Gulf of Mexico.

Center for Conservation Biology - ornithology

Read a fascinating array of project information at the website of the Center for Conservation Biology. The CCB is involved in shorebird, raptor, salt-marsh habitat, and general habitat-related research projects, and are involved in education and management as well. Worthy of support...