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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Homework assignment: Is the bird in this video a male or a female? It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. And there is a video here. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos. Also available as a video and another video. It is also classified as Near Threatened.

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Killing Birds in Cyprus – Fall 2011 Version

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If you’re a birder though, you had better have a police escort as some of my birder friends had to last week, while they went as part of an Important Bird Area data gathering group. If you’re unfamiliar with that story, here’s a video that’ll clue you in from BirdLife Cyprus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kk4B4YJWiQ

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Three companies refused to comply: Reckitt Benckiser, Liphatech, and Spectrum Group. EPA began cancellation proceedings, and at the eleventh hour Liphatech and Spectrum Group pulled the most dangerous of their products from the shelves.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. I began a program for PBS on a group of young kids in a small town in South Dakota. In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. Chaos and insulation.

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Red-winged Blackbirds

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Here are a couple of videos of male Red-winged Blackbirds singing. The male in this first video was a bit shy compared to the male in the above photos who came in later. Sometimes the male Red-winged Blackbird will sing with no obvious recipients in sight! There were some interesting comments on that post you might want to read also.

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Second Acts Success Stories

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Second Acts is a very unique animal organization, they fund raise on behalf of animal rescue groups! Second Acts distributes 100% of all donations received to small, volunteer-run groups nationwide that adopt a no-kill policy. Here is a recent video of their success stories.

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