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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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Empty Pied Oystercatcher nests

10,000 Birds

Last week I introduced you to the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 and so far they are surviving. We quickly investigated once the Brahminy Kite had moved through and discovered two eggs laid on the top of the cliff. Sadly this is rarely the case along our coastline here in Broome. Nest on top of the sandstone cliff.

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Bird Litigation: Hindsight and the California Condor

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the 1980s to be part of a captive breeding program. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. It is not always obvious which side of a bird-related conservation lawsuit is the right side.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

2019), and now this book. We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan.

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