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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. Ostriches originated in Asia. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.

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