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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way. Her product could have a large impact on pet cat-caused bird mortality rates.

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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

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In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds. It’s quite possible that further research into the internal stress indicators of birds may reveal similar findings. So far, there aren’t any reports of bird deaths caused by drones.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.