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The California gnatcatcher,
Polioptila californica, is a little gray bird. Males are identifiable by their black cap (absent in winter), females by the slight brownish tinge of their plumage. Distinguishing the California gnatcatcher from the fifteen other species of gnatcatcher is easy, the ornithologist Jonathan Atwood told me “if you’re a gnatcatcher freak.” All the others are little gray birds, too.
Scientists have divided
Polioptila californica into several subspecies. The northernmost of these, the coastal California gnatcatcher (
Polioptila californica californica) lives along the western coast of the Baja Peninsula, from El Rosario, Mexico, north to Long Beach a range that includes some of the choicest undeveloped real estate in southern California. When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the subspecies as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1993, the region’s ranchers and developers were furious. The listing would cost them more than $900 mill
Noise pollution poses long-term risk to trees study
Apr 15,2021 - Last updated at Apr 15,2021
AFP photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba
By Patrick Galey
Agence France-Presse
PARIS Noise pollution poses a long-term risk to tree populations and plant diversity that may persist even after the sources of excess noise are removed, according to research published Wednesday.
Manmade noise from construction, industry and the building of infrastructure such as roads and pipelines has increased dramatically since the middle of last century, and biologists are increasingly concerned about their impact on plants and animals.
While previous research has documented the short-term impact noise has on tree populations as it scares off pollinators such as insects and animals, few studies have investigated the long-term effects.
In ‘double standards’, none can beat the British
FILE PHOTO: Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Laura Lean/Pool/File Photo
Written By
7th Mar 2021
Rabindranath Tagore highlighted British (and Western) double standards in his great poem ‘Africa’ when he brought out the contrast between the serene Church prayers back home and the unspeakable brutalities inflicted on colonised races.
Another classic case of British ‘double standards’ has recently emerged in the way Bangladesh-origin British national Shamima Begum has been deprived of her British citizenship.