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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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However, there appears to have been an upward change in their population, at least in Scotland, where a recent RSPB survey found that a cooperative conservation program has increased the population there from 400 singing males in the early 1990s to 1,289 calling males in 2014. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

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

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. A 2014 Smithsonian study concluded that collisions likely kill 365 million to 1 billion birds annually in the U.S., I’m not sure which format is the most affecting, probably both equally.) 101(4), 1989, pp.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese. Passenger Pigeons, for example. Is this the type of avian experience we want?

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