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The Biggest Urban Pygmy Cormorant Roost is Finally Protected!!

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One of the very first Pygmy Cormorant promotions: League for Ornithological Action organised this roost watch in December 2004. By both Serbian legislation and the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected species. Photo Milan Obradovic.

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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. In February 2004, a young frigatebird blown into the Northern Pacific by a storm landed on a vessel bound for Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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The Swallow-tailed Kites in Florida Are Now Heading South…

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In about a week after the last count, no kite will be seen at or near the roost (Meyer 2004). Final report for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. By the August 1st, the number was about 1000 birds and by August 28 there were only 210 birds left. One would expect, as other birds do, that the kites migrate in flocks.

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes a baby white rhinoceros!

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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomes its seventh baby white rhino since 2004. Busch Gardens has celebrated a total of seventh white rhino births since October 2004. The adorable baby, a female, will join other rhinos in the 26-acre white rhino habitat on Busch Gardens’ Serengeti Plain. Photos by Matt Marriott/Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.

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Whooping Crane Ancestry

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Over a decade from 1993 to 2004, conservationists released 289 captive-raised Whooping Cranes into Osceola, Lake and Polk counties in Central Florida. I contacted Marty Folk from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and asked him if he had any clues. Turns out the two birds I saw were in fact both females.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it.

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