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Australian White Ibis Survey

10,000 Birds

This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! Are you going to be in Australia this weekend? As you go about your weekend, how about helping out and counting any Australian White Ibis that you see? You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year.

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Australian White Ibis Survey 2013

10,000 Birds

This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! Are you going to be in Australia this weekend? As you go about your weekend, how about helping out and counting any Australian White Ibis that you see? You can report your sightings easily online. You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney last year.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

10,000 Birds

When Nadeem and Mohammed first began in 2003, few veterinarians would suture the wounds of birds, saying they were too small. In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

10,000 Birds

Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status.

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The return of the Long-tailed Finch

10,000 Birds

In 2003 we rarely saw Long-tailed Finches at all in our garden and in 2004 we only saw them once in October. By 2002 we were seeing them a lot less regularly and the Double-barred Finch was the daily visitor to our garden instead.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

10,000 Birds

Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.

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It’s time for a new understanding of tanagers

10,000 Birds

Writing in the Journal of Avian Biology in 2003, Van Remsen theorized: [T]he bill may exert more influence on our cognitive perception because of its proximity to the bird’s face. ” For these reasons, it is perhaps no surprise that bird bills have played a prominent role in their classification.

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