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

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The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

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It is estimated that there were more than 1000 Great Bustards in the northern lowlands of Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century, but back then these birds were also present in the south and the east of the country. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. Lots of it.

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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

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They breed on a number of basaltic lakes in southwestern Argentina, and it is not entirely clear where they all winter, but some wintering Hooded Grebes have been found outside their breeding range (and a few none-breeding birds have been found year round at two locations on the Atlantic, apparently).

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It’s Time to Clean Out Your Nest Boxes

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Bird houses have been readily accepted by many natural cavity nesters, and increases in breeding density have resulted from providing such structures. This record will help you understand and interpret the present visit. If you don’t kill the adult wasp, she will soon return and rebuild.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?” In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding.

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Seabird City Spectacular

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Nobody knows whether the single pair bred successfully – it seems unlikely that they did – but they were present throughout the summer. They don’t nest until they are at least four or five years old, when they finally acquire full adult plumage, with the female laying just a single egg that takes 44 days to hatch.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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Most importantly, let us remember that the effects of the spill are still being felt and the BP Oil Spill timeline continues until the present and into the future. May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed.

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