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MARCH 15, 2012

Celebrate Earth Day, April 20, 2012, by seeing the latest Disneynature film, True-Life Adventure, CHIMPANZEE! The money will help to protect chimpanzees and their habitats, now and into the future. “As The film opens in North America on April 20, 2012.

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A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.” Here’s a short video of the damage. Any destruction like this of a wetland would be bad, of course.

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MARCH 22, 2016

In 1882 the legislature passed special provisions to protect the bird, decades before the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. Their populations have been declining , though they were not placed on the 2012 Watch List. In 1947 , Maryland made the oriole its state bird. Orioles have often captured the imagination.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the Aruba Birdlife Conservation Foundation began a campaign to make the Burrowing Owl the country’s national bird , which was officially named in 2012. The added publicity – the bird now appears on Aruba currency and stamps – will draw attention to needed conservation and protection efforts.

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MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. the hits keep coming.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

By both Serbian legislation and the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected species. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs. Four fifths were gone!

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AUGUST 29, 2017

On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). Book placement in schools would be targeted to sites in the vicinity of national parks and other protected areas which act as a stronghold for a large percentage of the country’s precious avifauna.

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JANUARY 2, 2012

I begin 2012 with 284 birds on my Queens Life List , 478 birds on my ABA Life List , and 1,048 birds on my World Life List. The Tufted Puffins at Protection Island in Washington State. Will 2012 be as kind a year to me as 2011? Check back to see how my 2012 Year List grows ! Who wouldn’t want to see this bird?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2015

There was only one that survived to fledge in 2010, two in 2011 and two in 2012. One of the surviving Pied Oystercatcher chicks in 2012 made itself famous right here. Pied Oystercatcher shading and protecting its chick. In 2007 one Pied Oystercatcher was fledged along this stretch of beach and none succeeded in 2009.

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JULY 20, 2014

While the environmental disaster was unfolding in New Jersey, New York beaches seemed free of the plants but that all changed in October 2012. These plants have old dark rhizomes growing from the base which extend deep into the sand. Plants Asiatic Sand Sedge invasive species Invasive Species Week Long Island'

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JANUARY 14, 2021

From: Walter Jetz (2012): Report on the vulnerability of East African biodiversity to climate change: Integrating the knowledge base on VETERBRATES, Report of Phase I activities. Serengeti NP protects a huge swathe of almost 15,000 km2 / 6000 mi2 in north-west Tanzania. Collaborative partnership with Yale University.

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AUGUST 23, 2015

The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. The last time they successfully raised a chick was in 2012. Pied Oystercatcher nest close to high tide and with added protection. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

We analyse possible causes for the decline of the population and propose conservation actions to protect this species. Taking into account that at present most Hooded Grebes attempt to breed in a few lakes on Buenos Aires and Asador (and perhaps Siberia) plateaus, the first conservation action is to protect these lakes. Roesler, I.;

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Portillo Padua’s previous documentary, the 2012 Diario a Tres Voces, was well reviewed and made the festival circuit, but it was of the creative, personal documentary subspecies.

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JULY 9, 2013

At 8am on Tuesday 30th August 2012, we arrived at Leeudril after leaving nearby Tweerivieren camp and were thrilled to spot a young female Leopard next to the water tank. You can notice in the above images how the Leopard uses her eye-lids as hoods to protect her sensitive eyes from the bright sun as she sprinted towards us.

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JULY 1, 2018

The Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the header photo has used that particular area of Cable Beach just north of the rocks since 2008 and the pair has only successfully raised one chick and that was in 2012. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Nest site with a view. Eggs in the nest.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Maybe spring of 2012? This post was written in my capacity as an “Official Blogger” at the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium which is like being President of the United States except without Secret Service protection and the ability to drop bombs on people you don’t like.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. photo of Elizabeth Gehrman: Ingrid Skousgard, 2012. Beacon Press, 2012. by Elizabeth Gehrman.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Aromatic plants in bird nests as a protection against blood-sucking flying insects? We need to find out what birds living near tobacco farms do, or even better, what those living near wild tobacco do. If there is such a thing as wild tobacco. Suarez-Rodriguez, M., Lopez-Rull, I., & Macias Garcia, C. 2012.0931 Clark, l.

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APRIL 13, 2015

However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me.

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JULY 3, 2012

I also did not understand the centrality of the Delaware Bay to shorebird migration, how timing and geographic design and water quality and tidal streams, the rich salt marshes and protected beaches combine to make this specific area of New Jersey and Delaware “The Most Important Stopover of the Western Hemisphere.”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Consumers should consider that cows like Edie or Sophia are often fiercely protective, grieving mothers whose anguished cries the farmer undoubtedly heard as he removed their young. The article also doesn’t mention the common practices of castrating male calves and amputating the horns of cows and calves, typically without any pain relief.

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JULY 5, 2022

©2012 Donna L. This Tufted Titmouse was found stunned in the glass corridor several years after the feeders were taken down, showing that clear glass and vegetation are not a good combination any time.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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AUGUST 12, 2012

After 28 days of sharing the duty of sitting on three eggs we finally had the arrival of our first Pied Oystercatcher chicks for 2012 on Friday August 3rd. I don’t know what predated their chicks, but I could see it was not easy to protect and feed three chicks over the days that I observed them.

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MARCH 15, 2024

The number breeding in Europe is almost certainly much reduced from what it was a century ago, but in Spain the birds are now valued and protected. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population. However, the Lesser Kestrel has received help.

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JULY 21, 2014

Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. Urban parakeets in Northern Illinois: A 40-year perspective. Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. President Obama has added 10 new refuges in his first term. The Wild Duck Chase.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management. Which is true.

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JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

And in the middle of a heatwave of the 2012 summer, I was heading to Sarajevo and Jahorina Mountain, a major venue of the 1984 Winter Olympics. Bosnian birders often bitterly joke that the only truly protected reserves in the country are minefields. Right: Water Pipits landing on my car and sliding down the windscreen.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

On 26 January 2012, my first full day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, I had a mission for the evening. The refuge, which was created to protect the now extinct Dusky Seaside Sparrow , is not normally open to the public, which helps keep the rails and other wildlife from being unduly bothered by the public.

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JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. Around 3,000 birds summered and bred at Birecik in the 1930’s but this declined to only 400 by 1982.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The book serves as a model of how our environmental success stories can be presented to the non-birding public, the citizens and legislators who are responsible for funding conservation projects and habitat protection. When I first started birding New Jersey, I didn’t really know where the Meadowlands started and stopped. 42, from N.J.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. ISBN: 9780691156613 200 pp.; 368 color illus.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

JOHOR, MALAYSIA, DECEMBER 2012 – If you’re traveling to Singapore for birding, you might want to think outside the box or, in this case, the island. And though I didn’t see an elephant, they lurk in Panti… this is an elephant fence protecting a palm plantation.

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