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The Golden-cheeked Warbler and Conservation Banks

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The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. One way developers are navigating the warbler’s endangered status is by utilizing conservation banks. What is a conservation bank? # # #. In 1990, the U.S.

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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. Mining companies have established themselves adjacent to the flamingos’ nesting sites and feeding sites. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. .” And within these chapters are three marvelous stories told by Sophie A.

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KwaZulu-Natal

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Image by Adam Riley Johan Wahlberg, a Swedish naturalist and collector, arrived in 1839 in the company of Frenchman Adulphe Delegorgue. He worked for Ezemvelo (the provincial parks authority) and was an avid bird bander who also worked on DNA analyses, radio tracking, monitoring endangered species nests etc.

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Raimat Saira Albariño (2017)

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If they can spare a glance upward, the busy grape-pickers might also be treated to another portent of the changing seasons in the Iberian skies overhead: the sight of flocks of White Storks ( Ciconia ciconia ) heading south from their summer breeding grounds in Europe to Africa, where they spend the winter on the warm savannas.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

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Several companies have become very good at working out what constitutes “clickbait”, identifying the types of stories that draw people in and giving them a suitably enticing headline. Losing a few non-breeding lions in zoos a great deal less. We need to establish what matters, and get that out there.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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The second organized outing was a day of megabirding in the company of one of Hong Kong’s most experienced and renowned nature guides. Mai Po Nature Reserve : world famous locale for shorebirds, waterfowl, waders, and wetland birds; wintering grounds for certain endangered species. Said thrush. 9 Little Grebe.

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