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Our June 2019 edition of News on the Wing provides a broad ranging recap of issues, events and just plain wildlife cuteness overload found across social media over the last month. 
Head on over and catch up on the wildlife and environmental issues that captured ours (and likely yours as well) attention recently.
This world we all share is beautiful and fragile. The Roost Online strives to bring you issues and stories of nature’s struggles and triumphs.
Happy reading!
In Lavender’s June edition of It’s A Birb Thing, Cheeks shows her exuberant, and rather messy, approach to food enjoyment!
For many years, scientists have known of how the red or yellow colour of feathers is achieved. These colours come from pigments in food the birds eat, meaning that they are diet based. One of the challenges in avian colour has been to figure out how the #blue colour is achieved. Interestingly, it came to…
via Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week: Blue — National Geographic Society Newsroom
Geographer and historian Jared Diamond on the success of tackling threats like climate change.
via Jared Diamond: Cautiously optimistic over climate change — BBC News – US & Canada
Boat-tailed Grackles “Looking for a cat on a tin roof” © HJ Ruiz – Avian101
via Photo Capture # 93 – Boat-tailed Grackles — H.J. Ruiz – Avian101
Hummingbirds are clearly fascinating and engaging creatures. They are biological wonders of ‘invention’, little gems that sparkle in their airborne dances through sunlight, with the seductive power to capture the attention of even the most incognizant of us lumbering earthbound humans, including many of those pretty much blind to the natural world. I did not […]
via Hummingbirds in the Real World: evolution, physiology and relationship — GardenRiots
Yesterday, May 29th, Randy Mooi and Lynnea Parker headed to Whitewater Lake to carry out International Shorebird Survey (ISS) transects. The day was pretty cloudy, smoke from Alberta creating dull, Mordor-like skies. randy commented as follows: ‘Not the most fantastic day to be at Whitewater, but decent shorebird numbers of a variety of species. Shocking […]
via Whitewater Lake ISS Trip with Lynnea Parker and Randy Mooi — Manitoba Important Bird Areas Program
Find out what Morty, Cheeks and Sherri’s flock have been up to of late, and catch up on current wildlife and environmental issues in this month’s News On The Wing. Also, learn about blogger WildlifeKate on our new Wildlife Blog Watch page.
Happy reading everybirdie!
Woodland Trust – @WoodlandTrust
The Wildlife Trusts – @WildlifeTrustshave a range of food and feeders to choose from. wtru.st/2I6vdAg Image: Nicholas Watts
Click here to read the May, 2019 edition of News On The Wing.
A #UKBA19 Nature and Wildlife FINALIST at the UK Blog Awards, WildlifeKate is an excellent blogger, writing and capturing nature from on and around her Staffordshire, UK garden.
Check out her videos of this year’s tawny owl family – currently nurturing two fluffy owlets (unbeknownst to them, growing up on camera). Or, watch the growth and fledge of resident nesting blackbirds.
To visit WildlifeKate’s blog click here or check out her website.
Stay tuned for new additions on our Wildlife Blog Watch page!
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